>But I'm just not sure a control model this heavy handed Is there any consensus that a popular website's comment area has high-quality conversation but also do

>But I'm just not sure a control model this heavy handed Is there any consensus that a popular website's comment area has high-quality conversation but also does not have heavy-handed moderation? The Coral website doesn't mention it explicitly but I believe the project is trying to reverse the trend of publishing websites disabling user comments.[0][1] It seems like a bunch of websites suddenly realized their user comments were more of a liability than an asset. Either heavily moderate them (costs $$$ in human labor) -- or disable them completely. [0] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/brief-history-of-the-demise-of-the-comments-timeline/ https://www.wired.com/2015/10/brief-history-of-the-demise-of... [1] https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/29720/no-comment-why-a-growing-number-of-news-sites-are-dumping-their-comment-sections https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/29720/no-comment-why-a-growing-...