If you run or manage a WordPress site today, especially one that hasn’t activated Akismet for spam protection, you know all too well that people love to try and comment on blog posts purely for the ...

A new journal article suggests that blog comments and Google autocomplete are changing the way the public consumes scientific news. Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele of the University of ...

Recently, Psychology Today editors removed from their site a blog essay (not written by me) I won't even dignify by naming it, but it was about Black women, and the debate about whether or not this is ...

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that removing all comments from a website may adversely impact search rankings. Mueller offers this advice during the Google Search Central SEO hangout ...

Sick of dealing with blog comments through e-mail or in WordPress' comments management page? Just install Moderator, an Adobe AIR-based moderation tool. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now ...

Back in 2017, when the editors of Inside Higher Ed sought input from readers in order to try to address the burgeoning problem of comment sections that seemed to too often fly off the rails, I wrote a ...