...we will continue to post our stories, columns and editorials on social media, including Twitter and Facebook, and you will be able to comment on them there as you always have.
In other words, the trolls can still have the cheap seats. But there may be a problem. They've apparently tried this before:
Not a surprise, since the non-Sun PM sites did this awhile ago. That said, a few years ago, a similar ban on comments was attempted by the Suns. PKP was all for it. Then the web traffic just cratered.... and comments were allowed again. So it will be interesting to see what occurs since, these days, clicks are all that count.
In other words, while you and I may call them the scum of the Earth, the sun chain calls them readers and they need 'em to to convince advertisers to place banner ads on their various websites. So, a conundrum.
2 comments:
I got kicked off commenting on Ottawa Citizen articles because I refused to sign up with the evil that is Facebook, social marketing site.
I got booted of Quora for using a pseud. But complying would have meant creating a whole new account just for Quora. So screw 'em.
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