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Editorial: Why some people hate comments (and why we don't)
Barnaby Britton - Editor: dpreview.com
Mat Honan of Wired.com thinks the time has come to banish comments sections from web pages. Writing for Wired.com's Gadget Lab blog, Honan describes the 'collective delusion' among online publishers that comments are a necessary component of web content. Honan characterizes active comments moderation as 'a messy, frustrating and typically thankless affair that involves more time than most people have'.
I sympathize with this point of view. We've only allowed commenting on our content relatively recently, and in the case of full reviews, only in the past few weeks. And at first we had a tough time keeping up with the unwelcome comments - mostly spam - that appeared at the bottom of our articles. I don't know exactly where they come from, but there do seem to be armies of people in the world who are employed to sign up to sites like ours and post commercial spam in the comments until they either get bored or get banned. Nice work if you can get it, I imagine.
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And then of course there are the trolls. Anyone who comes to dpreview.com regularly and looks at the comments or reads our forums knows what I mean. The users that occasionally derail conversations with raving accusations of brand bias, attack other people for not knowing as much as they do, or criticize our content for not being good enough, fast enough (or long enough or strong enough, or the wrong color, etc.).
Honan calls this 'digital graffiti on online real estate', and certainly, cleaning it up takes a degree of effort. I certainly don't agree with Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin though, when he says that 'everyone who runs a commenting system ends up killing themselves or shooting up a post office', although I do have a few more gray hairs these days than I used to.
All of us on the editorial team at DPReview have to reply to comments that most people would consider overly critical, offensive and sometimes very personal, but I wouldn't describe their authors universally as 'parasitic trolls'. Why not? Because pretty often, if a comment from one of our users gets me riled and I reply, more often than not they'll respond, apologizing for being hot-headed and thanking me for engaging with them. It doesn't happen every time, but surprisingly often, nonetheless. It's easy to cross the line when you're not sitting across a table from someone, and we've all done it.
What I've learned about commenting, either by email, private message, public comments or forum posts, is that most people are pretty reasonable most of the time. And of the comments on dpreview articles, I'd characterize the majority of the discussions as pertinent and on the whole, constructive. There's always some mud-slinging of course, but that's where active moderation comes in.
Of course it's very hard not to take some of it personally. At the end of a long day, towards the end of a long week, I for one don't aways respond as well as I should to the more personal attacks that are directed towards us. But in general, if I take a deep breath and respond politely, offer explanations and ask for constructive suggestions, the fire goes out pretty quickly. Even if not, I'll certainly feel (and sleep) better. And although it's not always easy to follow, that's the advice I give to everyone that writes for the site.
So I don't think that comments sections should be banished - partly because I know there are ways of dealing with the truly suffocating stuff like commercial spam (without giving too much away, we've managed to pretty well hide it on dpreview.com) and I've been in this business long enough to know that a lot of conversations that start badly can still end well.
But I do agree with Mat Honan's final point:
'If we want actual conversations, we have to acknowledge that those conversations are as important as anything else we publish.'
This is precisely why we continue to add new features to our forums, and if you read our weekly newsletter you'll have heard me banging on week after week about our system for creating your own articles. When we created the articles section of the site a couple of years ago, it was intended to do two things - mainly to allow us to post a more diverse range of content, spanning short reviews, technique articles, photography-related features and so on - but also, and no less importantly, to allow you to do it too. If you're a logged-in user and you've got something to say that's too long for a comments box or a forums post, why not write an article?
One of our priorities for the rest of this year and beyond is to get more comment on dpreview, to make the most of our readers' vast reserve of knowledge and experience and make our site a better resource for people who want to learn about photography. I want you to talk to one another, and continue to talk to us. Because the more you do, the less noise there will be.
What do you think? Let us know in the... well, you get the idea.
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Basically, I stopped using and even reading the the comments section on DPREVIEW. Most of my experience was that in asking simple questions or stating opinions were treated as insults or worse, 'foolish' in the eyes of some people. The ensuing discussions took on more the form of ideological debates rather than about the art and science of photography.
So now I just read the news and reviews and go about my own merry way rather than engaging in ultimately pointless discussions with people with agendas who hide behind the anonymity of the web.
The reason you don't want comment (or have them hidden by default, needing a specific action - click - to activate them) is to make clear the difference between the information, coming supposedly from someone who knows what he is talking about, and the opinion, comments, from users who may be knowledgable but may not.
Now the reason why you chose to allow comment is because many people like to comment and you would lose reader if you turned them off.
Things the way they are, as the commercial says.
Comments are a welcome addition to most sites provided the signal to noise ration is strongly biased tours signal. Other forums can create a useful, friendly, helpful community but DPR keeps getting worse in SNR while the articles and content are getting better. Taking a survey of other popular sites might reveal some clues as to how to slow the degradation of the forums. The better, more thoughtful and knowledgeable posters are becoming frustrated and are not posting when their contributions would be most needed.
I am a moderator for a large single brand forum and community and we make a determined effort to keep it civil, useful, helpful and on subject and it works very well. It takes some effort and a lot of volunteers but it can be done.
The difference between that one and DPR have between them is dramatic in mood, lack of hostility and nonsense claims or attacks.
DPR would be much more valuable of a resource if a plan was developed to clean up the garbage in the forums.
I have learnt a lot and acquired great knowledge from comments. If comments are banned then I will not visit those sites.
I agree totally about the screen colours. After a few moments of this awful white on black all I can see for ages afterwards is a horrible ripply afterimage that makes looking at anything else, never mind a photograph, a thoroughly unpleasant experience. Whoever thought this was suitable for a site that is ALL about seeing made a big error. I visit here reluctantly.
i agree too!
There is a Greasemonkey script out there which allows you to change the colors but in return it destroys some of the page content, but at least you can read the site without having hallucinations afterwards.
And honestly, white font on black is a crystal clear webdesign no-go, i do not understand why they keep this here.
White on black is unreadable and heavy, and I'd like one-page, reformattable, reflowable options so I can read later, especially on my hand-held tiny screen - but most importantly, everything on one page, article and all comments.
To me white text on black is so 90's, or early 2000's. It reminds me of the people that had free webpages and decorated it with the most visually unfriendly colors simply because they could.
I've complained about this before here and I was basically made to feel like I'm in the minority. But it is a PITA reading stuff here due to the white text on a black background.
The question of comments on the site comes down to whether you feel it adds something to the website, or takes away.
With the quality of the comments made on DPR - it takes away from the value of the website. There are too many people who comment on things they know nothing about (which puts off the real contributors), there are too many people who are plain wrong when they comment, and there are too many posts which are just plain rubbish and totally off topic.
Frankly, the noise ratio on DPR is now far too high to be worthwhile reading.
But then - this isn't about comment - this is about ads.
Newspaper survey after survey said Letters to the Editor were a high-readership page. Difference was that writers had to be verified to be published. Certainly didn't inhibit controversial comments, but did hold down nonsense, spam and did help cull letters of little or no reader value.
Today, we just have to skim comments sections across the web for items of value. There likely will be more value in a category-specific site, such as dpReview, so I'm glad the editors have chosen this path.
I am posting here less and less because of the abusive comments from people who try to pose themselves to be knowing everything. People hide behind the veil of anonymity and attack each other.
It's rather interesting for me to see sites from BBC news, where they don't have the commenting system available. I actually rather like it, compared to other places like Yahoo news, or any U.S. news sites.
Maybe it's just me, but hearing ridiculous opinions gets on my nerves. Hopefully mine wasn't too ridiculous. :P
The greater the likelihood a comment will make you look stupid or foolish, the more you're going to dislike comments.
Well , I sympathize with his point of view too but that does not mean I agree with him though. And seriously banishing comments won't help either. This is Internet. Its mean for open exchange of info, idea, and yes comments of such. There will be ways for someone to comment or voicing his/her bit of POV on anything published online. It can be equally beneficial and equally destructive.
In short, the collective quality of the comments also somewhat reflect on the readership and this is perhaps in a way even more important to the publisher. And seriously today I am seeing a trend in online publishing. With the need to RUSH the news or have something. The time and effort taken to write a decent article or at the very least the editorial process is very much abbreviated. To a point that it would draw a lot of criticism and negative backlash of sorts.
The guy who wrote the Wired.com article is named Mat Honan, not Matt Honan as it appears above. Just FYI. (See Mat, a helpful comment!)
A day without OxyContin is like a day without sunshine.
- Rush Limbaugh
The comment by Frank_BR offends people who, through no fault of their own, cannot have children. I am deeply upset and Frank should be banished forever...
It's all pants of course. You know, its getting to the stage where people may become afraid of expressing a personal opinion just in case they upset others are deemed offensive or are branded a troll.
Sad really.
So much for free speech.
Where do you draw the line?
Some people really need to get a life and stop obsessing about gear the other person uses.
I mean, I am an unashamed Apple freak, use film and manual cameras, hate photoshopping. But if that;'s your bag, hey, that really is nothing to do with me.
Since you are mentioning that people "criticize our content for not being good enough, fast enough (or long enough or strong enough, or the wrong color, etc" I must concur with them on the "wrong color".
Could you please make a button that switches the color scheme from a black background to white? I for one can't stand the painful white type on black background contrast.
"Could you please make a button that switches the color scheme from a black background to white?"
How are you going to read white type on a white background?
No way, keep the black background because when I am on the net at 2.00am and my wife is asleep next to me, DPR is the only website I can use without the glare from the computer screen disturbing her, thanks to the black background.
I also prefer the dark. Please, please don't go white background with gray text. Some sites are starting to do light gray background with black text. Thank goodness the white/gray storm is passing.
I had to help an office lady 'fix' her computer. It took a while, but I finally figured out she had turned text color to white. She had been used to Word Perfect's DOS blue/white and didn't think using white text in Word would be a trouble.. :^|
Black is beautiful!
"keep the black background because when I am on the net at 2.00am and my wife is asleep next to me, DPR is the only website I can use without the glare from the computer screen disturbing her"
Here's the perfect illustration:
Your illustration did not work, whatever it contained. Hulu websites are only available within US.
Dpreview comments tend to be a pretty rich source of good practical advice and handson experience. It's why I read the comments more than the forums.
I'm feeling a little commentstipated today.
Might have to try some syrup of troll.
No comment.
The problem with internet comments, aside from the spam, is that by and large people don't enter into debate looking to test whatever hypothesis or opinion they have against counter-evidence. What they end up doing is basically going in just to reinforce their own opinion by searching for enough posts that agree with them, and by finding reasons to dismiss out of hand the posts with dissenting views (trolling, shill, etc).
You know when I hear the word "WIRED" I think "cutting edge". After reading the article I think maybe Wired should consider changing their name to something they might be more comfortable with, like "NUETERED".
I used to comment things that I thought needed improvement, hoping that it would generate some practical reaction. So far, it was tolerated - and nothing else. So I thought, why comment at all if nothing changes?
Case in point: the Challenge Forum. There is a thread titled "What should be done with Cheaters?" well into its sixth chapter, but the situation still gets worse by the day.
So it's one thing being broad-minded, tolerant, understanding and democratic enough to allow comments, and there is quite another thing letting your own feature drown into mediocrity, to become a cheaters' playground and vanity paradise.
To DPR, positively or negatively charged hits may be equally valuable, but it's not so to the members. Tolerating wrong things will only drown the quality in mediocrity, like everywhere else. And before long, visiting here will be a loss of time - judging by many other, once successful sites, which have allowed themselves to deteriorate by the very same kind of attitude.
...you mean: so the quality of mediocrity will increase. :)
Maybe a moderator is needed.
While not perfect and still having plenty of annoyances, I find that comments on DPReveiw are generally well managed. Most forums are informational, and most people are helpful. Sure their are the the naysayers, and those whose only pleasure in life is to harrass others just for the sake of harassment, but for the most part they disappear into the background of the good stuff. Considering the challenges faced, I think DPReview manages a pretty decent balance.
Why not simply create a news section on the forums and create a thread for every news post there... Then just simply link each article to it's respective thread and direct comments there. It's more conducive to follow up and productive conversation than a simplified comment system IMO. (I can't take credit, some sites I really enjoy so this, like oldschool CPU/GPU review and news site HardOCP)
I think that kinda approach really cuts down on the flame bait drive-by kinda comments (not to mention the commercial spam, though it seems you guys handle that quite well) and encourages more discussion amongst regulars. Falling that, I think a downrank system that hides comments that are voted down would also help (even Amazon uses this for their review comments).
You like comments because they generate hits.
In fact you like comments so much that you still allow them even though you sometimes don't like their content.
Hits are crucial to you. The only thing that matters more is sales.
In fact you like comments so much that you post them even if the content offends you, and then you resort to offensive language, calling your readers "trolls" above.
Your critics are trolls? Really? If you reviewed cameras more quickly and didn't sell your site out to a sales site, neither of the above criticisms would have any foundation.
Today, however, both criticisms sometimes are founded. Reviews sometimes never show up at all (G5?) and since ownership structure of the website means bias is inherent -- denial won't fix this; only a restructuring that severs commercial ties will.
Your readers may not be trolls for pointing all that out; they may simply be awake.
And here I thought trolls were those cute little Norwegian critters.
This post consists entirely of accusations: you don't do things the way I think you should, you're offensive for using the widely accepted term for doing exactly what this post does, you're sellouts, you're biased (the review you haven't done proves it), you're in denial. It's a conspiracy-theory rant, not a constructive comment.
And yes, ranting is exactly what I'm doing too. Not very useful either. It's all too easy to get caught up in a tight little circle that does nothing. Which is why I usually don't read comments -- but who could ignore them in an article on comments?
I think there needs to be a -0.5 as well as a +1 button
That is to say community moderation/ voting accentuates the positive.
Meanwhile I think dpreview generally has quite good commentators and are worthy of reading. If you want to see how bad it can get, go to Boy Genius Report; there are trolls trolling trolls where people have set up parodies of other people's usernames just for that!
Downvoting is a tool for mobbing. It is often used by a group of fans to protect the forum from alien foreigners with unwelcome opinions. It can also be used as an attack on a forum or forum member by coming from outside and downvoting everything some individual says.
Downvoting is generally a bad idea.
I have been impressed by how many badly started threads have turned around into productive conversation. Immature comments on honest inquiry of course happens, but is easily ignored.
I like skimming through the article comments. Its a bit different clientel than the dedicated product forums and sometimes I pick up something I wouldn't of known about.
My biggest gripe about forum users is weak generic titles people use. Some interesting threads are lost inside one or two word titles.
Huffington Post has announced that all new commenters will be required to use real names. I always have, but I wonder what that would do here.
They're going to require a Facebook logon. While that won't prevent all anonymous spamming and trolling, it should cut it down a lot.
I dont have Facebook account, for a reason. Now ... dont you give the good folks at DPReview any ideas of that kind ... thank you.
Actually, I have wondered about requiring FB logon to prevent.. whatever-it-may-be.
How does this prevent anything, really. Is this power of prevention real or just a thing the FB people promote to further push their product.
I mean, lets use PayPal then. That comes closer to being linked to a real person. Dedicated troll to link bank account and etc. FB...
I use my real name. But ... if it was enforced that i should do so, then maybe I should call myself Donald Duck.
These comments are actually only equivalent to f/5.6 on a full fr... er... wait...
No no no ... F4 is always F4 ...
@zkz5: Best comment of the entire forum.
@Karoly - Focal length do not change the perspective. Its your view point that changes the perspective.
I sympathize with your dilemma but these comments are inevitably a catch-all. Here, we have people who are new to photography (I would characterize anybody who's never shot a roll of film in this category) and at the other extreme, people who need to show how much they know. Like the person in a meeting who asks questions he/she already knows the answers to.
Then, there are the engineers, who want to discuss DxO numbers down to the last decimal; the white orb alarmists "Fuji will go out of business, tomorrow!", Foveon attackers/defenders, camera collectors, people who use Holgas and now phone photography. And this doesn't even address people who are only interested in images and don't care about the type of camera. Quite a mix!
If DPR banned comments then people like me would just spew in the forums even more than we already do.
But, the Internet was invented by Al Gore. I know that because said so himself.
DotCom Ed—
Al Gore never said any such thing.
And irony one of the men who did invent the internet is real explicit about crediting representative Al Gore with making sure the development of the internet was funded by the government. You know the long term government research needed so you can comment in this forum.
Simply repeating lies about someone you happen to disklike doesn't make the lies true and contributes to the bag image of comment boards.
Next time try looking into what Al Gore actually said, instead of what Rush Limbaugh claims.
Only reason the internet was funded by the USG is because the NSA saw the potential.
Antony J---
Not sure "only" needs to be there. And the internet existed before 1994, when one couldn't really just email whomever or read a newspaper or shop at Amazon.
Though yes, Google, Ebay, Netflix and Amazon have been used as ways of collecting data on our habits, and sometimes the NSA does the collection---this was all obvious years ago.
Why is DPR no longer allowing comments to "What The Duck" postings?
Because it's not original content to dpreview.
Then why did you previously allow comments on "What The Duck" postings? ....
Thank you for raising this topic. I have suddenly understood that I prefer the news/blog like sites that allow readers comments. Moreover, I scroll to the end of the page of each and every site now to find user comments there :)
I think, this is already part of our live and those public sites which do not use commenting system will be dead sooner or later.
Indeed, moderation is extremely important and at the same time very expensive. And the commenting system itself requires much more server resources and maintenance efforts. We all need to learn effective ways to communicate and organize this.
User comments and forums are the most attractive feature of DPReview for me.. And I still cannot get used to reading white on black :)
"L'Enfer, c'est les autres..."
J. P. Sartre
To Veroman regarding poor grammar: However thorough I reread my comments before posting I'm sure some grammatical errors end up in my forum posts. I think I'm doing pretty well for a European writing in a language that is not my mother tongue and I think lots of others do as well. If you value discussion with non English speakers this is something you'll have to accept.
Yeah, grammar mistakes, maybe. A comma after an introductory clause here and there.
On the whole, it seems to me that not native English speakers (that's awkward) have as good as or better vocabulary than.. many Americans I know.
Maybe they use some unusual sentence construction, but they have a good vocabulary. :^)
"non native English speakers"
Truth be told, most of those who's English is not their mother tongue try to speak/write English more correctly than those brought up with English as their mother tongue.
Well, in the EOS 1D-X preview from November 2011 until today there were over 400 comments (before you started deleting some) and I guess about 90% of them were asking just one simple question: Will there ever be a full review of this camera? You could at least have had the courtesy to tell all those who have taken the time to register and post here that there never will be a full review. But there was never any kind of response from your side.
well, this is obviously not true. I at least did buy a 1D X and I would be interested in a full review about this camera even if I only had the budget for a 5D, 60D or 600D.
Quite to the contrary I wonder who really spends time reading an extensive review about a 300$ point and shoot camera.
I would like to read it too, and I would never justify buying one. Truth is though, flagship reviews are traditionally the longest most involved reviews done. And then of course, the D4, which came out first, would have to be reviewed along side. I wish they would review everything, but I understand why they don't. And they don't review many PS anymore either.
Actually, the point is not whether they do a certain review or don't. The point is that nobody is responding to hundreds of people asking if there ever will be a review.
The biggest problem is that there's no category discipline enforced. Too many people head for the professional Nikon forum (AKA the D600 forum now) and post dumb questions about filters, camera bags and tripods.
It's painful and time consuming to figure out what is actually an issue, especially wading thru the usual, "I went to the Zoo Sunday, look at my pictures".
I can only hope companies like Nikon get a grasp of what their customers think when they see hundreds of negative posts about their new 500 dollar D800 grip.
That's where these comment sections have value, who sits down and biatches to say, Nikon about prices in a formal letter?
At least this way you don't have to waste a stamp, asking Nikon for more reasonable prices. Presumably, they can get what they charge and realistically, that's all that matters to them. Canon sells $45 lenshoods (that should have been included, free) while eBay copies are $7.50, so it's the same all over.
Perhaps a 'Snobs' column is in order to cut out the plebs?
I would guess comments/forums increase web site traffic manifold. Traffic translates into ad revenues, amazon sales, etc. Kill the comments and you kill the site.
We survived more than 10 years without comments on articles - we didn't add them because of any revenue reason, we added them because modern Internet users expect to be able to engage 'on the page'.
So ... modern Internet users expect to be able to 'engage on the page'? Then maybe 10 years without comments is no proof of anything. Or?
Just admit it. You DO like it when hits are increasing.
Not that I disagree. A site with lots of hits is lots of fun. So .. we all benefit from it.
To 'increase web site traffic manifold' would be an 'exhaustive' effort I guess ;-)
Years ago, Hewlett-Packard bragged about their "next desk" philosophy. They felt that they were a large and diverse company, and if they could meet their own internal needs, then they surely could meet yours and mine.
That head-in-the-sand attitude was arrogant and nearly cost them the PC business. It caused them to go off on their own path and not listen to their customers, secure in the belief that they must be meeting the market's needs. As it turned out, they lost a lot of sales before they got their head out of the sand (or some other dark place).
My point here, is that if you do not listen, you become isolated and self-congratulatory; and one day you look up and say "where did they all go". Not having a means of feedback is effectively a policy of not listening.
At the root of the "Comments Issue" ... and I do consider it an online issue of major proportions ... is the fact that it's a free-for-all, with no editorial intervention beforehand. It's akin to the New York Times or any other daily newspaper publishing 99% of the letters they receive then, a day later, commenting on or correcting the ones that were in error, inflammatory, abusive, threatening, foolish if not stupid, etc. If this were the case, there would be no news ... just commentary.
Whenever floodgates like this are opened, one can say goodbye to proper and respectful language, critical and informed thinking, good grammar, etc. being in the majority. The wrongful use of "it's" and "its," for example, has reached epidemic levels at this point.
Comments are good to have and are often important. But serious journalistic venues tend to filter them BEFORE they pollute the environment. That's not likely to happen with a web site that's open to millions at a time.
Not to imply unconditional support of the internet as it exists - it will inevitably evolve in form and function as time passes - but immediacy, for better or worse, is one defining characteristic of the medium. For comments to await a thorough review before being posted would become cumbersome and disrupt the speed of dialog. It is a comment thread, not an editorial followed by rebuttals. I believe the thread notion is designed for quick commentary; yes, sometimes it is poorly considered, abrasive and not constructive, etc., but this is the trade off for its positives, mainly conversing in (more or less) real time. I appreciate the methods of daily printed newspapers as specific to their nature, but reasonable policing after the fact seem just fine here.
As for grammar, I can only say that such a concept seems trite. As an educator, I get it. But I'm sure I detour from proper form here and there. And, what would the alternative be? I think many, including those speaking English as a second/third/fourth language, would be discouraged from contributing to discussions. And that would be unfortunate.
I learn a lot from comments, but sometimes the trolls and spam is just too much anymore.
Without forums and without the possibility to comment you will not have any dialogue with your users. Then you will not have any feedback on what they think. Moreover, without the possibility to comment (like e.g. this comment) you will fast lose most of your users. That is at least my belief.
I understand the problems though. One example is that it seems like the photography articles you write (like the one about the Hong Kong new perspective) tends to attract rather many posters that are very negative. Also the coloring B&W article attracted a bunch of very, very critical posts regarding coloring old B&W images at all.
This is not fun. Of course, opinions may vary, but some takes life to serious, and seems to want to attack where no attack is needed.
But, I think its necessary. If you want to have the world leading digital camera forum site, its not possible to be without it.
It can't be news to DPReview's editors that too many comments on your articles are littered with personal insults and other inflammatory rubbish. Comments on most articles amount to arguments rather than well-meaning comments; and productive exchanges of information are rare. By contrast, FredMiranda.com (another well-known website catering to photography enthusiasts) manages to attract a large following of intelligent, engaged, friendly readers who greatly enhance each other's enjoyment of the site. I don't know how they do it, but DPReview would be a much more valuable resource if you somehow find a way to follow FredMiranda.com's example.
Well, I have seen my comments disappear for no apparent reason more than once. I never complained but given the opportunity I mention it.
I don't have a problem with photography. Just people in general. If I could just do away with clients, then my production would go so much smoother. Oh, wait.. :)
It's easy to stand ones ground when a subject is based on an actual experience, and I'll give weight to others whom may disagree, so long as they can prove that they actually did the work and have a real experience to back it up.
Too many folks are just soundboards of others, or decide to treat members as punching bags. Perhaps there is a definitive medical reason or diagnosis for this. Whatever it is, it can be toxic. Dump their accounts and they'll create a new alias and come back swinging.
It's why I fully believe in a "real name" forum. Don't hide behind an alias. I accept that not everyone is going to agree with what I have to say. Good! Correct me, if I'm wrong, and don't generalize. If you have an actual experience to back it up, then share it.
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HGHer Grimsley Won't be Paid Salary
The latest development in the Jason Grimsley saga is today's news that the Arizona Diamondbacks, who unconditionally released Grimsley this week after learning that his house was raided by federal agents, do not intend to pay Grimsley the remainder of his salary for the year. It is customary for released MLB players to be paid for the remainder of a season. The Diamondbacks' move also contradicts published statements made by Grimsley's agent, Joe Bick, who said that while he expected Grimsley would retire, he thought the player would be paid this year's salary.
By way of published statements, the team has effectively dared Grimsley, likely to become the Linda Tripp of the steroids scandal (especially if his statements manage to drag down current MLB darling Albert Pujols), to have his union rep file a grievance. The team seems particularly miffed that after Grimsley's house was searched in April, the player declined to inform the team promptly (but instead suited up in a DBacks uniform).
Although I have no particular love for Grimsley, I suspect that the team has overstepped its bounds here. Baseball's commissioner has virtually unlimited power to act in the best interests of the game of baseball, and could conceivably, without threat of judicial / arbitral reversal, suspend Grimsley without pay. But the team itself does not have those same broad powers, unless the contract contains a clause allowing the team to escape from its obligations if the player is found to have used a controlled substance. The so called Loyalty Clause that requires a player to "obey the club's training rules" would not seem to me to be sufficient grounds to escape the contract. The Loyalty Clause (Section 3(a) of the Uniform Player Contract) provides:
The Player agrees to perform his services hereunder diligently and faithfully, to keep himself in first-class physical condition and to obey the Club's training rules, and pledges himself to the American public and to the Club to conform to high standards of personal conduct, fair play and good sportsmanship.While it may be a close issue, I don't think this clause is sufficient cover for the Diamondbacks. Is this language specific enough to be enforceable? Is Grimsley's admitted usage of HGH, anabolic steroids and amphetamines a clear violation? I think Grimsley is going to need all the money he can get (to pay for a good defense team), and pursuing that grievance is a good idea if his claim is a likely winner.
As I've suggested in some earlier posts, the steroids scandal may present many of these interesting contractual disputes. Can a team escape from its contractual obligations if a player tests positive? What if a player, like Grimsley here or Jason Giambi a year ago, hasn't failed any baseball steroids tests, but has admitted to past use? Does the fact that Grimsley is the target of law enforcement attention matter?
Update: According to agent Bick, Grimsley plans to fight the Dbacks over this matter. A grievance is "already in process," as ESPN reports here.
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Well, using HGH illegally definatly breaks the training rules, does not conform to even a middling standard of personal conduct, and quite obviously goes against any principles of fair play or good sportsmanship. How is this even a close call?
..."a team escape from its contractual obligations if a player tests positive?"
NFL: Look at the quote at the end of this one....http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2478299
Geoff, I agree with you that the loyalty clause has not been breached by Grimsley. Although MLB contracts are guaranteed, if Grimsley retired, then he's not entitled to the remainder of his salary under his contract. However, if a team unconditionally releases a veteran player during the term of a guaranteed contract, then the player is entitled to the remainder of his salary (offset by any salary paid by another team in the event the player is subsequently picked up after being released). Here D-backs are saying that he chose to retire and asked for his unconditional release. If true, I would say he doesn't get the remainder.
Also I've heard from a reputable source that there were 21 names on the affidavit and that another player already had a copy of the affidavit to see if his name was on it or not. What are the odds this leaks, about 50-75%?
It's somewhat moot now, since Grimsley's been suspended for 50 games by MLB. Of course, he can challenge that suspension.
I agree with the first poster that the following contract language is a problem for Grimsley:
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The price reductions on Volvo vehicles - of around $3,000 to $4,000, depending on model - represented a "great incentive" for consumers to buy a Volvo now, rather than wait until July next year, Volvo Australia's managing director, Jan Eriksson, announced yesterday.
He has called on the Federal Government to reduce the present wholesale sales tax to a level which would drop prices to the same level as they will be next year when the tax is dropped altogether and replaced by the GST.
"In the short term, this will reduce tax income for the Government," he admitted, but added: "If they don't, car sales will plummet and hundreds of jobs in the industry will be at risk. Consequently, tax collections will be down and the economy will suffer."
He said that although Volvo supported the GST, it feared that consumers would wait for the GST to be introduced before buying a new car, with the result that sales would drop significantly during the next 12 months.
This is a fear common in the industry, expressed by both local manufacturers and importers, with Mr Eriksson predicting a sales downturn of up to 20 per cent.
BMW Australia's managing director Uwe Hartmann, has warned that the effect of waiting 12 months for the wholesale sales tax to be replaced by the GST, and the consequent consumer backlash, could be sufficient to have a serious effect on the local manufacturing industry.
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'The Watchers on the Wall' is the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones season four and what a wallop of an episode it was. This was without a doubt, the strongest episode of the season. It was as close to a movie as we'll get with this series and it will forever be held up as a standard for how battles are done on the small screen.
This was a very heavy Knight's Watch episode. The entire arc with Ygritte the wildlings basically comes to an end. In such an action heavy episode, the opening with Jon Snow and Sam was welcomed humor. It's just one part of the work the writers do to get us invested again in what happens to these character. Quite frankly, the Night's Watch has been the weakest storyline this season. It's been a very slow burn and there has been little to no movement on it until recently.
The character moments really help build up the emotional investment for the viewers. The friendship between Sam and Jon Snow gets the aforementioned comedic moment. Gilly and Sam too have a moment as she finally makes her way back to him. What stuck out though about the first part of this episode is that the Night's Watch became real. They truly are a line of defense for the entire kingdom and tonight showed how important their work is. We've watched Jon Snow grow up and become who he is but have not really seen the Night's Watch carry out their duty.
This was like watching a full on action movie. The budget for this season was no doubt used heavily for this episode. This made the zap-game-of-thrones-season-4-episode-9-the-wat-003attack on King's Landing look tame. There are wooly mammoths and giants. This was Lord of the Rings big. It was reminiscent of the battle in 'The Two Towers'. 'The Watchers on the Wall' had far more real action than the battle of King's Landing. It was non stop, bloody and at the end, completely heartbreaking.
This was an achievement in television production. No show has ever done anything this large scale before and successfully pulled it off. What really made it all work so well was the obvious attempt at using practical effects. The fights were properly shot and lit, the camera angles swift yet clear and the emotion behind all the performances. There was CGI but it wasn't used heavily enough to be all the creators relied upon. It was used just enough.
Only one storyline was covered this episode and it was a smart choice to do so. The finale is listed as an hour and a half so there's no doubt that will be enough time. To prevent the battle at the Wall feeling choppy this was a necessary decision. It helped make this the most action fueled episodes in the show's history and it will forever be the holy grail of how action is done on a television series.
Kit Harington and John Bradley West as Jon Snow and Samwell Tarley respectively, do such a fantastic job in this episode. More so Harington. He's really come into his own after his interaction with the Wildlings. Jon is a leader now and of all the Stark children, the most like his father. Sam too grows up entirely tonight and while he still retains some of his kindness, he too is a leader in his own way.
'The Watchers on the Wall' is a perfect episode. It is also a perfect transition to next week as the finale will not have a need to split up many arcs. Everything in King's Landing will get tied up as neatly as it can. It's almost as if we're getting two finales. That's how large scale this episode was.


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Adding search capabilities to a portlet
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This article shows how to add search capabilities to a portlet.
Example - Bookmark Portlet #
1. Implement a com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.Indexer class, like this one: http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lportal/portal/trunk/portal-impl/src/com/liferay/portlet/bookmarks/util/Indexer.java?view=markup
This class is responsible for adding/updating/deleting documents to the index, it uses SearchEngineUtil which is an abstraction to the underlying search engine that is being used (currently you can use Solr or Lucene, Lucene is the default engine).
When adding a document you create a Document instance and pass it to SearchEngineUtil.addDocument along with the companyId. A com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.Document is just a collection of Fields, a com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.Field has a name and a value which is the content that you want to search for, for example, a Bookmark entry has a name "This is a Bruno bookmark entry.", later on, you can search for it with this query: name:"bruno".
A call to document.addText will add a Field to the document and its value will be filtered before indexed. All words that don't help with to bring relevant search results will be removed (like punctuation, pronouns, adverbs), in the example above the bookmark entry name would become "bruno bookmark entry". addText is usually called when the content to be indexed is a long text.
A call to document.addKeyword will add a Field to the document and its value will be indexed with no modification.
document.addUID is very important because it's used to create a unique identifier to the document in the index. You will need it to update or delete the document later. There are some other useful methods to Document, like addFile, that extracts contents from many file formats, and addModifiedDate which adds the current Date as a field to the document.
Some fields are commonly used: groupId, portletId, companyId, they are useful because you can narrow your searches to only show documents that were created in a certain community or company or even a specific portlet instance.
Indexer.getDocumentSummary is used by the Search portlet to aggregate all results from all portlets in just one place, DocumentSummary will be used to render each document in the search result listing.
2. Add a <indexer-class> to liferay-portlet.xml pointing to this class. Whenever you hit the button Re-index the Indexer re-index method will be called.
3. Whenever a Bookmark entry is added/updated/deleted from the database the Indexer is called to update the index accordingly. Search for Indexer at: http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lportal/portal/trunk/portal-impl/src/com/liferay/portlet/bookmarks/service/impl/BookmarksEntryLocalServiceImpl.java?view=markup
Observe the places where Indexer is called:
Indexer.addEntry(entry.getCompanyId(), folder.getGroupId(), folderId, entryId, name, url, comments, tagsEntries); Indexer.deleteEntry(entry.getCompanyId(), entry.getEntryId()); Indexer.updateEntry(entry.getCompanyId(), folder.getGroupId(), entry.getFolderId(), entry.getEntryId(), name, url, comments, tagsEntries);
If you encounter a NullPointerException while retrieving your portlet's indexer (portlet.getIndexerInstance() returning null), check the portletId returned by YourIndexer.getPortletId() and keep in mind the portletId outside the portal will be "<portlet-name in portlet.xml>_WAR_<webapp name>"
4. Now that Bookmark entries can be added/updated and removed from the index you are able to make searches requests to SearchEngineUtil, take a look at: http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lportal/portal/trunk/portal-impl/src/com/liferay/portlet/bookmarks/service/impl/BookmarksFolderLocalServiceImpl.java?view=markup
Look at the search method: public Hits search(long companyId, long groupId, long[] folderIds, String keywords, int start, int end)
It constructs a com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.Query instance and calls SearchEngineUtil.search(companyId, fullQuery, start, end) which returns a Hits instance.
A BooleanQuery is one implementation of Query, you can specify which field values MUST (AND operator), SHOULD (OR operator) or MUST_NOT (NOT AND operator) occurrences in the results. You can create composite BooleanQueries by adding one to another.
Start and end parameters are used to paginate the results, for example if start == 0 and end == 2, only the first two entries will appear in the result, if both are equal to QueryUtil.ALL_POS (-1) than all results will be returned.
5. Now that you have the search method you can use it in a jsp, for example: http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lportal/portal/trunk/portal-web/docroot/html/portlet/bookmarks/search.jsp?view=markup
This jsp calls the search method and iterates over com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.Hits which is a collection of Documents and represents the result of the search. The Hits class gives the score (the importance) of each document, tells you how long the search took and how many documents were found.
On each Document you can get the values of each field by calling document.get(String fieldName) or getValues in case the Field has multiples stored values.
6. If you want that your portlet will be listed in the Search portlet results you need to do one more step, create a com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.OpeanSearch implementation and add a <open-search-class> to your liferay-portlet.xml. Take a look at how this is implemented for Bookmark portlet:
With this implementation you will also be able to expose search results in the OpenSearch standard format which can be interpreted by many OpenSearch clients, for more information, go to: http://www.opensearch.org


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In 2006, about 18% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, such as wood-burning. Hydropower was the next largest renewable source, providing 3%, followed by hot water/heating, which contributed 1.3%. Modern technologies, such as geothermal, wind, solar, and ocean energy together provided some 0.8% of final energy consumption. The technical potential for their use is very large, exceeding all other readily available sources.
Renewable energy technologies are sometimes criticized for being intermittent or unsightly, yet the market is growing for many forms of renewable energy. Wind power is growing at the rate of 30 percent annually, with a worldwide installed capacity of over 100 GW, and is widely used in several European countries and the United States. The manufacturing output of the photovoltaics industry reached more than 2,000 MW in 2006, and photovoltaic (PV) power stations are particularly popular in Germany. Solar thermal power stations operate in the USA and Spain, and the largest of these is the 354 MW SEGS power plant in the Mojave Desert. The world's largest geothermal power installation is The Geysers in California, with a rated capacity of 750 MW. Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel. Ethanol fuel is also widely available in the USA.
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The 12 acts moved into the luxury property a week ago.
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