Comments on: Food critic asks reader’s opinion for a change http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/09/11/food-critic-asks-readers-opinion-for-a-change/ <h2>A words-based weblog by Manchester journalist David Quinn</h2> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:52:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Robin http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/09/11/food-critic-asks-readers-opinion-for-a-change/comment-page-1/#comment-5911 Robin Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:24:32 +0000 http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/?p=269#comment-5911 The road to hell eh? I do get the feeling that there are going to be a lot of these kinds of experiments that go completely tits-up at a very early stage. You can see in a lot of websites, many well-known and respected, badly thought-out Web 2 experiments that don't quite work. Everyone's aware that there something they probably should be pursuing in the digital age, I'm not sure all of them have a great grasp of exactly what it is. Reader comments, for example, have to be just about the worst thing that ever happened to the internet. Anyone who posts a reader comment is either stupid, utterly objectionable or sarcastic. Are any of them - at all - any good? I'll leave you to muse on the irony of this statement. The road to hell eh? I do get the feeling that there are going to be a lot of these kinds of experiments that go completely tits-up at a very early stage. You can see in a lot of websites, many well-known and respected, badly thought-out Web 2 experiments that don’t quite work.

Everyone’s aware that there something they probably should be pursuing in the digital age, I’m not sure all of them have a great grasp of exactly what it is.

Reader comments, for example, have to be just about the worst thing that ever happened to the internet. Anyone who posts a reader comment is either stupid, utterly objectionable or sarcastic. Are any of them – at all – any good?

I’ll leave you to muse on the irony of this statement.

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