I agree. Comment sections tend to be really hard to moderate. I accept comments via email and then I manually add them to articles as part of the main text. This is a largely self-moderating system because only when a reader honesly thinks their comment is important do they bother emailing. While I always respond, I only include the comment in the article if I think it is of greater value to the community at large.
It's not ideal, but it is as close as I have come to showing someone an article and asking for their comments IRL.
That's a massive amount of work though. Is there nothing to come from all of this "machine learning" nonsense talk, putting it to actual good use automating this?
It's not ideal, but it is as close as I have come to showing someone an article and asking for their comments IRL.