Lehighvalleylive.com- "Today, fewer than 3% of all lehighvalleylive.com’s total audience read our comments and only 0.04% post comments...
At their best, the lehighvalleylive.com comments were a place to learn more about a story, add or correct information that we missed and engage in a meaningful, respectful debate. At their worst, our comments were a place none of us would want to spend time. They were a place for racism, misogyny and hatred — a place to perpetuate the worst stereotypes about our region, our neighborhoods and our people. It was never our intent, but we ultimately gave people a license to say things they would never say in their workplace or at their dinner table without the cloak of anonymity.
On Thursday morning [02/27/2020], lehighvalleylive.com will remove comments from the site. Archived stories also will have comments eliminated."
They've become part of an ever growing list of news sites that have dropped their comment sections. Seeing the comments left on most of these other sites, for the reasons they stated, I can understand why
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