What’s new in comments about comments. The debate on anonymous comments on websites continues while publisher retool or junk their comment systems. Meanwhile, a few interesting new experiments are happening.
- Yelp Reviews Brew Fight Over Free Speech, Fairness - WSJ.com
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[Times-Picayune gives judge data on two online commenters Home The New Orleans Advocate](https://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/home/8873960-172/times-picayune-gives-judge-data-on) -
[Sun-Times kills comments until it can fix ‘morass of negativity, racism, and hate speech’ Poynter.](https://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/247525/sun-times-kills-comments-until-it-can-fix-morass-of-negativity-racism-and-hate-speech/) -
[Livefyre Takes A New Approach To Commenting With Web Annotation Product Sidenotes TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/16/livefyre-sidenotes/) - Anonymous Pa. Web speech may not be so anonymous - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Man Threatened With Defamation Lawsuit Over Negative Yelp Review « CBS New York
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[Articles about “User commenting” Poynter.](https://www.poynter.org/tag/user-commenting/) -
[Lawsuit may ‘chill online speech’ Poynter.](https://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/232865/lawsuit-may-chill-online-speech/) -
[Turning the Page on Anonymity: The Future of HuffPost Comments Tim McDonald](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-mcdonald/end-of-anonymity_b_4418630.html) - Why Medium Notes Are Different and How to Use Them Well — About Medium — Medium
- David Karp: Tumblr Reblogs Created To Fix Comment ‘Awfulness’
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[Why some publishers are killing their comment sections Digiday](https://digiday.com/publishers/comments-sections/) - Internet troll personality study: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism.
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[Web comments ‘more civil’ when journalists interact, study shows Media news Journalism.co.uk](https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/what-happens-when-journalists-interact-with-comments/s2/a555603/)
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