Block is a political science student at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He is from Encinitas and has been writing with the Community Voices Project since February 2023. On ...

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The Washington Post's Web site recently shut down the viewer comments section of one of its weblogs after an article by the Post's ombudsman caused a flood of complaints. The Jack Abramoff scandal is ...

When DCist killed its comments section last week, an under-catalogued era of Washington journalism died along with it. In the publication’s early days, “it felt like the site wouldn’t matter without ...

I’ve been writing this "Living Single" blog here at Psychology Today since 2008. That’s more than a decade, and in all that time, one of the true joys has been the lively and insightful discussions in ...

In the half-second before opening a comments section, a voice in my head says, “I don’t think we’re going to like what we’re about to see.” And it’s always right. Still, I regularly scroll to the ...

A case study from the Toronto Star illustrates how journalists can help build community by engaging with audiences in the ...

The ARLnow comment section is legendary. Over the past 16 years it has hosted a daily exchange of ideas on local topics with a volume of comments more typical of a large city newspaper than a ...

Now for the exciting part-2 conclusion of last week’s surprisingly controversial post: 10 types of blog comments (Part 1). Make sure you read Part 1 first to get caught up. I had a lot of excellent ...