re: Media companies have started to give up on online comments sections

I don't think removing the comments section is the right business move. Without a comments section, people only click once on an article, whereas people click the same article many times over if they're tracking the comments.

Also, maybe it's just the sites I go to, but I really don't see many examples of abusive commenting. I see plenty of examples of commenters calling out authors on their BS, though.