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By Stephen Khan, Editor, The Conversation UK On April 8 2013 Margaret Thatcher died. I had recently finished working on the news desk of The Guardian, and it was strange to be simply observing a news event…
Getting more authors involved in our community is a key part of Community 2.0. That’s why we’ve launched guide for our authors on how to engage with comments – it appears on our writing platform, the writing…
We recently announced we’d start commissioning comments from academics. Here’s an update on how it’s going. The idea is to invite academics with subject expertise to contribute to the discussion – we let…
We receive a lot of comments each day and it can be difficult to keep track of them, so it stands to reason you’ll miss some interesting stuff. That’s why we’re going to run “community highlights” posts…
As part of our approach to improving comments on The Conversation, we’re paying particular attention to comments on climate change. We know comments on this topic can often be derailed, deliberately or…
Last week we floated the idea of a “community council” to help us moderate the site. You seemed to like the idea. Here’s a brief update. We’re moving forward with the idea. I’ve spent the last few days…
We’re thinking about creating something of a community council - a group of users who help moderate the site and encourage quality discussion. They’d also act as a community-driven conduit between The…
When we relaunched our community standards earlier this year, we said they were just the beginning of our changes. And they are. Drawing from your ideas and our own, we’ve scoped some possible changes…
Today we ran a story by David Glance about anonymity and real names online. This is an issue close to our heart – we’ve required real names from our commenters since we launched – and thought this would…
Three years ago we launched The Conversation with a simple aim: to improve the quality of public discourse (aka conversation). That hasn’t altered, but we have grown, developed and, we hope, improved…