Do Newspapers Need Comments?

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 16:15

A few weeks back, we wrote about the question of whether or not newspapers should be getting into the community business by noting that you don't build communities, you enable them .

But, the question still remains how you enable those communities. Gawker had an interesting post recently along those lines arguing that newspapers shouldn't allow comments on articles .

The argument is, basically, that a lot of the comments are really dumb, and don't add very much....


 

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