Thread:Qwertyxp2000 the second/@comment-43346949-20200417180226/@comment-25404524-20200418090116

Spike144 wrote: Hello,

we had the comments feature enabled in 2009-2012. People mostly considered the comments being a kind of general all-topic off-line chatroom and they hardly left a message related to the article itself. In 2012, after a new popular game had been released, the comments became an even bigger source of off-topic messages, spam, offensive and hateful arguments. So, we disabled this feature.

We still have a forum which has a similar function. It takes more time to find the forum than finding the comments section under the article, but I believe this has bacially a good impact. It often discourages immature kids from leaving their immature comments while mentally developed people still find the forum.

We also have a discord server where people looking for social interaction can spend their time. The discord platform has a very good support team. Also, a lot of fans create various bots that help local server admins to manage their server and to keep it clean. Yep, that's basically an expansion of what I was thinking about.