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Vice also doesn't have comments [0] on their articles. What other big venues do this (NPR, Atlantic, NJ.com are listed in the Inquirer article)? Or I guess many
by podiki 6y ago
Vice also doesn't have comments [0] on their articles. What other big venues do this (NPR, Atlantic, NJ.com are listed in the Inquirer article)? Or I guess many just embed Facebook comments or some other outside network and consider it someone else's problem?
[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvdjjy/were-getting-rid-of-comments-on-vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvdjjy/were-getting-rid-of-c...
- lstamour 6y agoAlso: The Economist (for most articles, if not all): https://medium.com/severe-contest/help-us-shape-the-future-of-comments-on-economist-com-4bc968b5d0d4 https://medium.com/severe-contest/help-us-shape-the-future-o... and https://www.reddit.com/r/theeconomist/comments/81zwcw/whatever_happened_to_the_comments_section_in_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/theeconomist/comments/81zwcw/whatev... Bloomberg: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/28/bloomberg-switches-off-comments-in-website-redesign https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/28/bloomberg-swit... That said, this doesn't seem to be the norm yet. A number of news sites I frequent try to solve this by hiding the comments section by default. NYT sometimes hides comments on articles posted on weekends when they have fewer content moderators available, they say. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/reader-center/comments-moderation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/reader-center/comments-mo...
- Chris2048 6y agoVice probably doesn't want anyone correcting their articles or pointing out bias/hypocrisy either..