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 ...

Commenters may be hostile or spread misinformation. Moderators are burned out. Some outlets have limited commenting privileges to registered users or subscribers. Some have developed their own ...

When cleveland.com shut down its comments section in 2020, the decision came after years of battling toxic discourse, hate speech, and off-topic rants that overwhelmed any semblance of civil ...