RE: end of Disqus (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

More silos.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 11:02:35 -0800 (PST)
 >
 >  > From: Daniel Zoll <http://www.KQED.org/~dzoll>
 >  > Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:58:55 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > Dear Noelle:
 >  > 
 >  > Thanks for your email. I totally hear what you are saying about the value 
 >  > being exposed to other POVs. This was a very tough decision for that and 
 >  > many other reasons.  We greatly appreciate your contributions and totally 
 >  > understand your concerns. Creating a safe, courteous and vibrant comments 
 >  > section requires constant monitoring and moderation, which has been a 
 >  > challenge for us. We'll take your concerns into account when coming up with 
 >  > our new audience engagement plan and strategy. In the meantime, I hope you 
 >  > will email and call into the show. Thanks again for your feedback, and for 
 >  > the Matt Taibbi recommendation.
 >  > Best
 >  > Dan Zoll
 >  > Senior Editor
 >  > KQED Forum
 >  > 
 >  > ________________________________
 >  > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg<mailto:
 >  > http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>>
 >  > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:45 AM
 >  > To: Forum Mail
 >  > Subject: end of Disqus
 >  > 
 >  > I am not very happy that you are ending Disqus comments. It's
 >  > going to make us even more isolated. I would otherwise not be
 >  > exposed
 >  > to right-wing commenters' views and their citations they share to
 >  > explain their views. We have a contentious but fun community going
 >  > on here and you are now outsourcing comments to Facebook and
 >  > Twitter.I could see that it's harder for you to find questions that
 >  > you read on the air since we do go on and on sometimes in our
 >  > engagement.
 >  > Come clean to why you are ending Disqus for Forum. I checked the
 >  > Perspectives section and it does not appear that you are ending
 >  > Disqus there. Are you afraid to offend people who read comments we
 >  > post on Forum Disqus? You are not being very transparent about your
 >  > reasons. I remember when NPR ended Disqus and it was a bad decision.
 >  > Why does everything have to be done on Facebook? I have chosen never
 >  > to join for my own reasons, and what with the privacy concerns, the
 >  > Russian trolling and the general takeover of the public square by
 >  > one company I am really concerned about what is going on with our
 >  > cultural and political life.
 >  > thanks for your time,
 >  > Noelle
 >  > PS are you going to have journalist Matt Taibbi on to talk about his
 >  > book Hate Inc? I didn't think so. He skewers journalists and they
 >  > don't like to hear his critique of his and their profession in our
 >  > political system.