An early concept of a sort of digital identity/community that would allow people to remain accountable on the web, while still protecting their integrity and anonymity.

1. Commenteer
Making Comments Relevant Again

2. Internet Comments – The Promise
• Adding value to content
• Raising visibility of content
• Building communities
• Connecting content creators and fans
• Advancing the state of the discourse

3. Internet Comments – The Reality
• Trolling, spam and hostility
• Toxic communities
• Content creators frustrated
• Negative effect on the discourse

4. Internet Comments – Consequences
• Gated communities
• Manual moderation of comments
• Comments disabled altogether
• Users install apps to block comment fields

5. Enter Commenteer

6. Commenteer – Purpose
• Create a persistent ”Comment Aggregator”
– Users’ quality of comments is tracked
– Pages’ qualities are tracked
• Expose the gathered data
– To end users and content creators
• Raise the quality of comments on the web

7. Commenteer – At a Glance

8. Commenteer – Social Network
• Converts and unifies social currencies
– Likes/Favorites/Upvotes
– Retweets/Shares/Reblogs
– Unified currency, Commenteer Points
• Automated ”Profile” pages
– For users AND pages

9. Commenteer – Social Network
• Profile pages automatically link to content
• Users can connect their social networks
– Yields CP bonuses

10. Commenteer – Web Integration
• Page admins can set policies
– Require login
– Comment/Commenter quality thresholds
– Require Commenteer login (or not)
– Can use Commenteer alongside standard ratings

11. Commenteer – Web Integration
• End user features
– Login with Commenteer
– Filter post visibility by quality thresholds

12. Commenteer – Browser Plugin
• Always logged in
• Quick changes to page/global policies
• Flags pages with bad average CP ratings

13. Commenteer – Adv. Integration
• Media with nested comments
• Browser games
• Client games

14. Commenteer – Revenue sources
• Ads on main page
• Licensing fees for content providers
• Referral payments

15. THANK YOU!
Commenteer concept, wireframes and this presentation © 2014 @OdiousRepeater
Stylized C and other assets borrowed; no copyright claimed