OregonLive, the website for the Oregonian newspaper, ushered in 2020 by banning comments from its site. Incivility and the cost of moderating comments are the reasons offered, and the paper's editor makes the point that only a tiny fraction of the audience posts comments. All true.
The story attracted 3,600 reader comments, which seems a lot for a publication of this size, before the commenting was shut down. Readers are encouraged to take their conversations to social media.
Update: A short iMediaEthics report on this.
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