How Salon Tamed the Trolls and Saved Its Online Comments

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By: Lucia Moses | Digiday

Online comments sections are a double-edged sword for publishers. For those trying to increase loyalty and engagement with readers, comments should be an essential part of an audience strategy. But all too often, they becomes a haven for trolls and spam. Meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter are becoming the new comments sections as people shift their online conversations there. For those reasons, a host of sites including Reuters, Popular Science and Tumblr recently killed off comments entirely or never introduced them in the first place.

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