Earlier this year, a group of climate scientists were outraged about a Wall Street Journal editorial. In an earlier era, they might have written a letter to the editor, or meekly submitted their ...

' Bruniversal Comments ' is a browser extension that adds the ability to comment on any web page. The comments are made using the Bluesky system, so if you have a Bluesky account, you can view ...

Is it time to get rid of the comments section? Or would that be a great loss for freedom of expression online? On an elemental level, comment moderation policies call into question the ideal ...

Scroll the comment section on virtually any site on the web and you’re bound to encounter at least a few toxic comments. Maybe more than a few, depending on the site you’re looking at and the topic of ...

If Shakespeare’s Hamlet joined an online chat, he’d probably write: “To be and not to be, that is the option.” But you can bet the Prince of Denmark wouldn’t use his real name. Perhaps he’d call ...

Marking up Web pages is nothing new. Offerings like Sharedcopy, MyStickies and Stickis allow you to annotate any Web page and, in some cases, share those annotations with others. However, a new entry ...

The comedy site Splitsider is turning off comments on most of its stories, Editor Adam Frucci writes. “For one, we’ve never had much of a commenting community to begin with,” he explains, continuing: ...

Popular Science magazine shut down online comments to stories on its website Tuesday. Robert Siegel speaks with Jacob Ward, the magazine's editor-in-chief, for more on the decision. The Internet, from ...

The Washington Post's Web site recently shut down the viewer comments section of one of its weblogs after an article by the Post's ombudsman caused a flood of complaints. The Jack Abramoff scandal is ...

A former Vance County commissioner seeking office again wants to sue up to 20 Web site users who commented on a local blog for posts that he claims are libelous. A court hearing is scheduled for ...