Remove commenting for all articles.
People are hateful, rude and often "troll." There is also evidence of fake accounts and bots.
Anon
shared this idea
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M. Wilhite
commented
And you let them ruin your day? If you don't like what is said, move along...
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E C M
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I don't think comments should be removed but I think Yahoo should be monitoring much better to remove hateful and irrelevant content and trolling. I flag comments for removal where people call for others to kill themselves, etc. and when they are so off topic of the article's subject. We have the option to have those vile, threatening and trollish comments looked at and removed so USE FLAGGING but use it wisely. Don't flag people just because you don't agree with their opinion if they aren't being rude and are on topic. Last but not least, if you don't like comments, don't click.
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Daniel Thompson
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Yes I'm afraid this may be the only effective solution that the company might be willing to enact. I've never met a racist who thought he was, but the comment sections are full of xenophobic and homophobic statements. Since the mass exodus of users to gmail and chrome you've been left with the users who don't adapt to change as well, and as a result of he who shall not be named, they've become vocal about their bigotry and nonsensical untruths. I am a proponent of letting people use their free speech rights even if they do lie and spread hatred, but it has gone too far. If the only solution is to silence us all here, so be it. I've been here since 96-97 and I'd like a rep to contact me.
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K
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Given the amount of spam, trolls, flame baiting, and more, (not to mention the occasionally phishing link) it's hard to feel that the feature is doing anything useful for the site and to have a "discussion" on the article.
In additon, by removing the comments, it's one less thing your staff would need to focus on/moderate, freeing up resources to do other stuff.
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K
commented
Just remove comments all together from the Yahoo site
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VInce Klortho
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Somehow, yahoo's comment section does not work for me at all yet this does. I have made posts twice in this section and both received useless replies from the company and were closed from further comment. I have tried this from four different computers, two phones, five different browsers, and countless different connections. The really interesting thing is I can see the comment section easily and read them all when I am not logged in. As soon as I log in then it stops working. Maybe I'm banned and they are too clueless to notify me. I have no idea why I would be who knows?
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Jack Bell
commented
Stop the bots! Is Yahoo doing anything about the trolling bot accounts that proliferate in the comment sections of news articles?
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Anon
commented
People are hateful, rude and often "troll." There is also evidence of fake accounts and bots.