Long-time Slashdot reader jebrick quotes an article from Ars Technica about how Norway’s government-owned public broadcasting company “employs open source tactics to fight trolling”:
The five-person team behind a simple WordPress plugin, which took three hours to code, never expected to receive worldwide attention as a result. But NRKbeta, the tech-testing group at Norway’s largest national media organization, tapped into a meaty vein with the unveiling of last February’s Know2Comment, an open source plugin that can attach to any WordPress site’s comment section. “It was a basic idea,” NRKbeta developer Stale Grut told a South By Southwest crowd on Tuesday. “Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it”… He and fellow staffers spent three hours building the plugin, which Grut reminded the crowd is wholly open source… “[W]e realized not every article is in need of this. We are a tech site; we don’t have a lot of controversy, so there’s not a big need for it. We use it now on stories where we anticipate there’ll be uninformed debate to add this speed bump.”

What do you think? And would a quiz-for-commenting-privileges be a good addition to Slashdot?

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Source: Slashdot – How An Open Source Plugin Tamed a Chaotic Comments Section With A Simple Quiz