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The off‑topic Conversation #107

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know…

Community highlights

The Conversation receives a lot of comments each day and you can’t read everything. That’s why we occasionally end the week with a selection of community highlights: comments we enjoyed or thought worth…

Community highlights

The Conversation receives a lot of comments each day and you can’t read everything. That’s why we occasionally end the week with a selection of community highlights: comments we enjoyed or thought worth…

The off‑topic Conversation #106

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know…

Community highlights

The Conversation receives a lot of comments each day and you can’t read everything. That’s why we occasionally end the week with a selection of community highlights: comments we enjoyed or thought discussing…

How we moderate off‑topic comments

Off-topic comments are some of the hardest to moderate. Removing them is an important part of keeping discussions on track but, at the same time, we need to stay flexible. Doing so allows new, potentially…

The off‑topic Conversation #105

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know…

Community highlights

The Conversation receives a lot of comments each day and you can’t read everything. That’s why we occasionally end the week with a selection of community highlights: comments we enjoyed or thought discussing…

We don’t remove comments just because we disagree with them

Every so often, after removing a few comments for violating our community standards, a discussion will start about moderation and what kinds of comments are removed. Inevitably, one line of argument will…