No comment: Why news websites are ditching comment sections

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Christopher Altchek first realized how difficult it is to manage a community of commenters in early 2012 when his news publication Mic (then operating under the name PolicyMic) was linked to by The Drudge Report, the conservative news powerhouse.

"We had a really robust and really high-quality commenting section and commenting community. And that Drudge link really blew that community apart pretty quickly," Altchek recalled in an interview with Mashable. Hundreds of thousands of new readers "who didn't care about Mic" flooded the comments section. "That was the first moment we realized that if we are going to scale the community, we are going to need to spend a lot of time on it." Read more...

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