The BBC news website used to do something similar. You could submit a comment below an article but it would be up to their editorial staff to pick which comment

The BBC news website used to do something similar. You could submit a comment below an article but it would be up to their editorial staff to pick which comments would be published. In typical BBC fashion, they would try and publish equal numbers of consenting and dissenting views. Later, they modified this practice so that "The comments published below reflect the balance of views we received." (their words). Naturally, this method of commenting raised the ire of many who accused the BBC of 'censoring' views. Now anyone can comment on BBC news articles and, in my view, the comment sections are of such low quality, they are completely unreadable. So in a way, as a reader, I preferred the old practice of publishing a selection of comments (a bit like sending a letter to the editor of a newspaper), because what was published was varied, generally well-composed and of managable reading length. But as a user commenting I can see how frustrating it would be to repeatedly submit comments that were never selected for publication.