In recent years, many media companies have disabled them because of widespread abuse and obscenity.
Source: Have Comment Sections on News Media Websites Failed?
Our DS multisite offers opportunities for users to interact with a public audience, and we provide training and online help to facilitate effective interactivity. But there are challenges, as news media have well experienced. At one level, comment spam can be relatively well managed automatically (we have a variety of plugins on our multisite that do this); yet some comments that pass through can be decidedly unhelpful—witness the phenomenon of internet trolling, for instance.
Should we shut down comments functionality on sites (such as this one) on the DS multisite? Thankfully, we don’t yet have anywhere near the traffic, nor offer the notoriety, of major news media…but this is something for us to think about, now that these online media are saying no to this form of interactivity.
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