Civilize the comments on the Internet through Facebook?

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Facebook today announced an update to its platform of comments made ​​available to publishers’ websites, which has the advantage of reducing the boundary between the world’s first social networking and blogs or news sites where are formed also discussed. By default, messages published through this API by the registered members of Facebook are also reproduced on the page of the user, allowing more users to engage in conversations, and make visible those that were before and visitors of the blog comments. This is the logical functions “I” and “Share” on Facebook.

The function is attractive to publishers, who will find it easier to support a community by a system that does not require additional registration. Facebook has added more features reassuring for those wishing to moderate comments, it is now possible to choose the visibility of messages, key words to censor or ban members. All these functions are already available on the forums, but become accessible this time with a few lines of code, without heavy management.

But Le Monde said that the main novelty of this update is stopping anonymous comments. It is now possible to comment via the API without identifying themselves with a Facebook account or other OpenID login recognized by the platform. ” Facebook is estimated that to post comments under his own name will have a beneficial effect on the quality of comments, users being more reluctant to publish texts insulting, aggressive or rude in their true identity , “reports the newspaper. It is a form of boost to the internet civilized advocated by Nicolas Sarkozy , who has something to delight Senator Jean-Louis Masson who opposes anonymity .

Publishers who use the solution of Facebook will have to do it with caution. Both for strategic reasons, because it will deprive the database of comments and then go depending Facebook ad vitam . But for editorial reasons. It would be inappropriate to ban anonymity on sites that may be required to gather evidence about the disease, drugs, personal experience in business, illegal practices, the political difficulties in a foreign country, etc.., and so on. Anonymity is not a flaw, it is also a valuable tool for freedom of expression. Numerama on most of the comments are anonymously (or rather under pseudonyms), and we do not feel they are much less civilized than elsewhere.

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