- «You, gentle and not-so-gentle readers, have been on my mind lately. You vast and invisible online throng, slouched in front of thousands of computer monitors, have done something revolutionary. You have forever altered the relationship between writer and audience. The Internet has turned what was once primarily a one-way communication into a dialogue – or maybe a melee.»
Dies schreibt Gary Kamiya auf der Magazin-Website «Salon». Und Kamiya fährt weiter:
- «But writers have an odd and ambiguous relationship with their readers, and the reader revolution is having massive consequences we can’t even foresee. Writers are being pulled, or lured, down from their solitary perches and into the madding throng. This has opened useful debate and made writers accountable. But it has also thrown open the gate to creeps, narcissists and wannabe Byrons who threaten to damage the fragile, half-permeable membrane writers use to keep the world from being too much with them.»
Diese und weitere kluge Beobachtungen im etwas überlangen «Salon»-Artikel von Gary Kamiya.
Update, 9. Februar 2007: Unter dem Titel «Are you killing your comments» fasst Robert Niles, Chefredaktor der «Online Journalism Review» die drei häufigsten Fehler im Umgang mit User-Kommentaren zusammen.