> If you are indeed writing a 'factual report', nothing should be disputable. The world is just not that simple. >The solution is less to 'manage comments' as

> If you are indeed writing a 'factual report', nothing should be disputable. The world is just not that simple. >The solution is less to 'manage comments' as the article says and more to write better articles, and encourage a good culture of news where readers and commenters are critical and contribute to the conversation I think it would be very rare to find articles so well written as to prevent jibber jabber from occurring in comments. HN is a very different kind of community from these others as well. Also, HN isn't immune to this. :) On HN, I have found the problem to be more with groupthink opinions rather than outright misinformation ... well that occurs too, especially on articles relating to higher education.