Humans, hello. We are very excited to have you join us for the most significant relaunch in our history. Our commenting system is one of the things that has changed.
Coral is a great platform for building communities and great commenting experiences. You have already seen Coral in action if you are a contributor on either of the websites. The Coral team worked with us to make a great commenting system for The Verge.
A lot of us think about comments. We are thankful to our loyal community, which continues to participate across the site in funny, surprising, and insightful ways. Coral will help us make better comments. The system will help you, the staff, and the team of moderators to improve discourse on the internet.
This is the first day of our new look. We have a bigger vision for the site, the commenting system, and the community than what you see here today. We have a lot of ideas about how to bring The Verge into the world in new ways. As the site continues to grow, we will have more to say.
That is all I have from me. You would like to know what the toy does.
Some of the new things you can do are listed here.
A new view of comments. The comment experience now takes over the entire window on mobile when you click to go to the comments. It's really hard! Everyone will be able to focus more on conversations without having to scroll down the page. It looks nice. Comments are featured. The best comments from across the site will be featured by both the editorial team at The Verge and the moderation team. The first comments you see on our stories will be the comments that we think are the best of the best. The images are embedded It's now possible to drop stuff in a post. From the comment editor, we have access to a Gif library. There is a way to sort It's been a long time since I've been able to say goodbye. You can sort comments by age or activity. It's a sign of weakness. If you don't want to see another user's comments, you can turn them off. Select the "Ignore" button if you don't want them to read it. Reporting is better. Coral has enhanced reporting tools that will help you identify comments that violate our guidelines.
It is missing if you have a comment history with the site. Don't fret, your comments will be migrated to the new system soon. The My Profile tab allows you to see your comments inside the comments section.
We are excited to return to the comments and engage with readers. We're still committed to making conversations better than the internet, even though places like Facebook can be very noisy. The Community Guidelines have been updated to reflect how we think about the comments.
We still have some hard and fast rules, but we hope everyone will think about what they are doing while participating. I would like to thank Eric Berggren for his help in developing the new guidelines and for caring so much about this community.
Don't be disrespectful. Being respectful in the commenting community is more than just following the rules, it is also trying to encourage good conversation by welcoming and including others. Think about how your actions affect other people. Think about how you can make people want to join.
Do you be curious? The goal of The Verge is to explore our future. It's fun to learn and we can help each other learn new things together with the same spirit of curiosity we bring to writing posts for the site. Don't assume you know what people think, feel, or mean because they are all different.
Don't be boring. It's another way of saying be relevant. Bring something new to the discussion. This isn't a race to be the first. If that means sharing an insight that only you can give, we hope you will. Don't forget to stay on topic, comments are not a free-for-all, and you're more likely to write a great comment if it's related to the topic at hand If you participate in a thread, try to add value to it.
You should show your work. It's possible to approach commenting the same way. Do you make an argument or claim? Whether it is a news story, a scientific study, or a good video explanation, back it up with something tangible. People share some of the sources for their assumptions and conclusions in conversations that are richer and more fascinating. You could tip us on something we should look into.
We need your help. The Verge is a place where everyone feels welcome, and our moderators make sure that is the case. You can report comments that violate the rules. The full Community Guidelines can be found here. Don't be a jerk to other people Let us know if you see a person doing rude things in the comments.
You will see new cool stuff added over time, like live Q&As, as we continue to work with the Coral team. New comments are just the beginning of a lot of experiments. We are working on a number of top secret projects.
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