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YouTube is testing hiding its comments section

Users would be required to press a button to find comments instead of simply scrolling.

On by Mikael Thalen

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Alphabet’s newest tool gives your comments a rating based on how toxic they are

You might just learn a lot about yourself.

On by Phillip Tracy

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‘This’ site hopes to make the comments section great again

Can a comments section foster community, or will it always turn into a breeding ground for trolls?

On by Lyz Lenz

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R.I.P., the Toast: A champion of strong voices with weird ideas

The site’s demise marks the death of an Internet community—and a sign of the times for independent publishing.

On by Lyz Lenz

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Top European court rules that websites aren’t liable for mean comments

You can’t force a European website to delete a comment just because it hurts your feelings.

On by Eric Geller

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Joshua Cohen wrote a novel with the Internet reading over his shoulder

‘The entire thing is written under duress. It’s getting tortured out of me.’

On by Dana Schwartz

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The very worst YouTube troll comments, annotated

We actually read them.

On by Ziwe Fumudoh

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The clever way a blogger uncovered the location of Russia’s online troll factories

You wouldn’t think it would be this easy to find Putin’s troll hordes on Google Maps.

On by Patrick Howell O’Neill

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Why we’re killing our comments section

And why we hope to one day bring it back.

On by Austin Powell, Nicholas White

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Echochamber.js is the best website commenting system ever

It’s like a cone of silence for the Internet age.

On by Curt Hopkins

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Boy reading mean YouTube comments about himself will make you want to cry

Shut ‘er down.

On by Jaya Saxena

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29 essential reaction GIFs for any Facebook thread

No words necessary.

On by Miles Klee

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Muslims react to heinous comments on a post about a mosque daycare fire

We couldn’t remain this calm if these comments were about us.

On by Michelle Jaworski

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Aliens flew over San Diego, and we’d like to introduce ourselves

We’ve been waiting.

On by Feliks Garcia

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Can this algorithm save comment sections from the trolls?

Maybe someday soon, we can read the comments.

On by AJ Dellinger

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