For even more scoping, I think it could also be helpful to decide on a specific news site that you would want to implement a solution for — this could help you hone in on the audience. For example, Buzzfeed is a pretty different kind of news site with a different audience from a site like The Wall Street Journal.
I’m excited to see where this goes!
]]>I like the idea that a specific prompt might be what we need to solve commenting. You might consider what you do with people who ignore or abuse the prompt – are their comments removed? Deprioritized? Who writes these prompts? The article author?
One thing to consider is that communities establish norms through priming. In introducing this new form of comments, you may need a team of people posting appropriate comments to help demonstrate how this functionality should be used.
I’d like to see design sketches, some examples of what prompts might be and how they appear in context. I’d also love it if you would try some prompting in your own social media – use FB or instagram to prompt people to respond in a specific way and see whether your levels of engagement improve…
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