Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Another Publication Closes It's Comments Section

This time it's The Week. Fishbowl New York has the details. I like the way they are spinning it, which I believe is correct...
And so today, the smartest, most thoughtful, and most spirited conversations are being driven not by pseudonymous avatars in the comments sections of news sites, but by real people using their real names on the social web. It is no longer a core service of news sites to provide forums for these conversations. Instead, we provide the ideas, the fodder, the jumping off point, and readers take it to Facebook or Twitter or Reddit or any number of other places to continue the conversation.