Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave, welcome to the rebels' home!

Spill your guts, folks!

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

FREE BHTV!!!! YEEAGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

Ocean, I guess you must have missed Bob's note here in vBulletin. Here's the relevant part:

[edited to ponder what to do next]

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

Brenda, I had a vague idea that Bob had asked that we continued posting in the new Disqus forum. But I think that both Bob and you are underestimating the effect of the new forum. For some of us it's plainly not feasible. It's not about changing the format a little bit and making some adjustments. It's a dramatic change. Some of us will not want to continue posting. It's as simple as that.

You can get your new crowd of commenters there with lots of one sentence comments and LOLs, but those of us who participated here because we liked the ability to have more complex interactions, extended, in depth discussions, will not be able to switch.

So, simply either we have discussions here (vBulletin), or you will lose us and we, of course, not allowed to use this one for our discussions will have to move on to other business.

I'm sorry to be so blunt, but this switch was a terrible mistake and proof that you may not understand the dynamics of your comment section. It may work for some and especially for people who have been happy using Disqus in other places for their short comments. You may be able to build a new community there. I'm not likely to participate. It's too depressing.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

Believe me, we're aware of the limitations of Disqus. I won't argue that it's as good a platform as vBulletin. But we had compelling reasons to ditch the vBulletin-to-diavlog bridge.

For the good of Bloggingheads.tv, I hope you'll give Disqus an extended workout for, say, a couple of weeks. You assume a community can't be nurtured there, but it's only been, what, 48 hours? Let's not give up yet.

[edited to fix link]

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

I agree. Terrible, terrible mistake....from the point of view of regular commenters. But who knows what is their point of view. Is it a matter of cost? Or does Bob want to attract more traffic? IMO, he is not going to attract the kind of traffic that shows up in the comment section of the Atlantic or the New Yorker--but rather the kind of traffic that shows up in Yahoo message boards.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

Can you elaborate?

We might be thinking the same thing. I believe there will be mostly "post and forget" or "drive by posting" type "discussion" going on.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

We are probably thinking the same thing. Posters to the Atlantic and the New Yorker don't generally engage in discussion with one another (no threads as in bhtv) but they are greatly superior in quality to "post and forget" boards.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

Are you referring to a sequence of monologues/mini essays that some websites have? I've seen that in specialized forums. It's a whole bunch of experts who like to write their essays about the topic. Like a mini-professorial exposition. It can be elegant looking and interesting in an informational way, but the lack of interaction places them between boring and insufferable. Not the BhTV crowd for sure. The political diavlogs wouldn't attract many from that crowd either.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

True, but I would rather read mini, elegant, semi-professional essays than fly-by-night posters, who are not interested in discussion. The new format is no different from Yahoo message boards.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

Oh, absolutely, I agree with you.

Sometimes I'm reading an article on line and I look at the comments and I get so turned off by the pitiful content that I've decided not to even try. Between the typos, the lack of grammar structure, and the incredible silliness and shallowness of the content, it's closer to torture than getting anything meaningful. Unless I was trying to get some form of research data, and still it would be depressing.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

When I click on the diavlog, I do not have the option to comment. Is there a glitch or do I need to click on something specific?

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

I know what you're talking about because I ran into that problem at the beginning. But here's where you need to go. Not sure how I got there.

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

you click on the diavlog you want to watch, then you click on play entire video

I miss my italics!!

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

[LIKE]

Re: Jan 6th - TWiB Bill Scher and Matt Lewis
 

I'm willing to comply... for a price. Ahem, still waiting on my book. ;)