What does the decision mean for the NPR community?
A Brief History of the End of the Comments
For years, comment boxes have been a staple of the online experience. Now many media companies are giving up on them.
Comment Sections Are Essential for News Sites. We’re Making Changes to Improve Ours.
While many other news organizations have abolished their comment sections, we are taking steps to make ours better.
Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments | The Mozilla Blog
To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com
Comments Are Dead, Long Live Comments - AVC
Yet another mainstream media site took down comments this week. In the post explaining the move, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher explained that “as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and less used and less and less useful.” […]
We Fought the Comment Spam (and the Comment Spam Didn't Win)
When we noticed that comment quality was rapidly declining on the blog, we decided to do something about it. And that something didn't involve closing comments, but improving them.
What's with "Discuss on Mastodon"?
Originally I thought about giving this thread a more general title like “indie web comment options,” but then I figured let’s cut to the chase: I want to understand the prevalence of Mastodon links being used at the end of indie web posts in place of a comment section. Here are some posts about using Mastodon as an alternative to a comment section: Murteza Yesil: How do I comment/reply to your posts? Beetle Space: Adding Fediverse Comments to My Static Site Beej’s Bit Bucket: Mastodon Comment...
ATF public comments analysis 2026-08
Breaking the silence
Research on science communication has largely focused on teaching scientists how to describe their studies in ways that interest the public while deepening their understanding of scientific exploration. However, there is another, often overlooked side to science communication—how scientists respond when questions arise about the integrity of their research. Often, the tendency has been to stay silent and wait for any controversy to pass or be resolved in professional forums. But in an age of growing, intense attacks on science, silence can be detrimental to both public trust and the careers of scientists who are under scrutiny. For better or worse, journalists, social media professionals, and the public may take a response of “no comment” as a concession that the critics are correct, so forthright communication about research questions is more urgent than ever.
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
How to Read an RFC
Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly – interoperability and security issues. However, with some insight into how they’re constructed and published, it’s a bit easier to understand what you’re looking at.
Removing sexually explicit content from r/all
327K subscribers in the modnews community. An official community for announcements from Reddit, Inc. pertaining to moderation.
Deliberation and Identity Rules: The Effect of Anonymity, Pseudonyms and Real-Name Requirements on the Cognitive Complexity of Online News Comments
How do identity rules influence online deliberation? We address this question by drawing on a data set of 45 million comments on news articles on the Huffington Post from January 2013 to May 2015. At the beginning of this period, the site allowed commenting under what we call non-durable pseudonyms. In December 2013, Huffington Post moved to regulate its forum by requiring users to authenticate their accounts. And in June 2014, Huffington Post outsourced commenting to Facebook altogether, approximating a ‘real-name’ environment. We find a significant increase in the cognitive complexity of comments (a proxy for one aspect of deliberative quality) during the middle phase, followed by a decrease following the shift to real-name commenting through Facebook. Our findings challenge the terms of the apparently simple trade-off between the goods and bads of anonymous and real-name environments and point to the potential value of durable pseudonymity in the context of online discussion.
