we are living in an age of rage. People are angry with government, with media, with religion, with migration, with Europe, with big business. That frustration comes burning through in comments posted below stories on our website, a facility offered in the spirit of open journalism that has seen an extraordinary growth in numbers, sometimes running as high as 65,000 posts a day. That’s a huge number – and it’s producing its own frustrations, not least among those who feel they have an inalienable right to comment.This outburst arrived in my inbox recently: “Re the excellent article by Jeremy Corbyn. You stop the comments at a mere eight. What on earth do you think you’re playing at?” The tone was typical of this new age. In reply, I explained what the paper was “playing at”: trying to curate a reasoned debate in comments, not shut down discussion. That sometimes meant closing them for a while and then reopening them when we had a sufficient number of moderators to handle the volume. I noted that the total at the time of my reply had grown to 2,058; our reader had spluttered too soon.
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