(2015-06-28) Media Site Comment Battles

Federica Cherubini notes Popular Science, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Mic, The Week, Re Code, The Verge, and now The Daily Dot. What do they have in common? They all decided to kill their online comment sections. What seemed a light trend a few months ago is now growing into a more consistent wave. (Blog Comment)

• This is part of a series (Medium "publication") on the Coral Project joint-venture of Mozilla and the Ny Times and Washington Post.

Oct02 update: News organizations must treat reader comments with the same level of consideration that they treat their own stories, New York Times community editor Bassey Etim said today speaking on a panel at this year’s Computation + Journalism Symposium at Columbia University. “We have to treat comments as content,” Etim said. “We can’t cede the social world to large companies.” (herm FaceBook)

Oct05: Mathew Ingram wonders Are comments dead, or have media outlets just given up on them?