[Bedon292]

It has been a long time since I actually dove into a comments section on any news site and found anything other than inflammatory arguments. It seems like people target out these news sites intentionally to start these arguments with no intent of listening to the other side. I would much rather come somewhere like here, and actually seem to have mostly civil discussions even when people disagree.

Does anyone find the comment section of any news site informative and useful? If so, where?

[clydethefrog]

De Correspondent, a Dutch publication, their comments section is only accessible to paying members. They treat their subscribers as a community and usually an article ends with a question to the reader to discuss.

Their publisher has a typical Medium post about their strategy. As a subscriber I would say it works, unless the topic is already really controversial.

https://medium.com/@ejpfauth/lets-give-reader-comments-anoth...

[type0]

I think it's great giving their subscribers a voice, however I don't agree that it's good to only be open to paying members. It's better to have something like subscriber accounts with unlimited comments and regular user accounts with limited number of comments.

[justincormack]

The Financial Times often has pretty good comments, that are informative. Post Brexit its got worse though.