Is the GOP becoming a dysfunctional chatroom? In economics, Gresham’s law on currency markets holds that “bad money drives out good.” That principle also applies to the comment sections on online ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many newsrooms, providing a forum for community members to interact — such as in a comment section — is part of their mission. Figuring out how to make these spaces thrive, however, often ...

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 ...

From social media posts to informational blogs, every major platform online has the ability to leave feedback in the form of comments, and on most of these platforms these comments are public. These ...

The most important part of Reddit has been and likely always will be the comments section. In my short time on the social media service, I've found that, unlike some other social media services like ...