Business Insider drops comments from articles

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• the comments were the only reason i went to that site!!

  • I agree. Business Insider owes 100% of its success to normal people commenting on each article. Yeah the titles and articles were click baity, but the comments were great! Anytime a site closes/restricts comments, it's because they are terrified they can't control the narrative.

• Yeah... "The value of our comments section has diminished" It especially diminished when the majority of readers started calling out Bullshit in their articles. Their writers got hurt, and needed to find a safe space to hide. "Help... I've been Triggered by our readers" they would cry, as they rushed down the hall, looking for a nice dark padded closet in which to cower and recover.

  • I'm sorry I can't tell those republican commenters to go fuck themselves anymore

    • I liked BI because of their commenting section in particular. No preaching to the choir in there. Everybody was forced to sell their thinking and it really honed what I believed in (and didn't believe in).

      And I like to think that some of the BI authors were interested in what we had to say. How hard it must be, to be a writer at BI and navigate between what you're being asked to sell and actually communicating with your audience. You could sense how some of the writers were trying to dance between the two.

      Oh well, those days are over. Now their job is simpler. Sell it, sell it, sell it. I feel sorry for them.

  • Nail on the head! Their tiny lib minds couldn't take it anymore. I suggest boycotting them. And, fuck you sanders! Ha!

    • Beat me to it! Not afraid private Sanders. Righties don't need safe places when people disagree.

  • Agree. Sort of saw it coming ... as they tested the waters with turning off comments for selected (the real B.S. ones) articles. These likely articles complying with the political agenda of those that are most influential with the new owners of the company.

• I noticed this happened the day after the election. I suspect they wanted to censor the Trump voters because their staff and owner are BIG Libs and didn't want to hear it. Too bad, I will not be visiting their site anymore as a result. Was kind of tired of all the politics on the site because it was one sided - Good Hillary (no analysis of WikiLeaks) and Bad Trump. Would rather read Business Stories instead.

• BI is now funded/owned by Bezos and Bezos didn't want the conservatives to have a voice/platform anymore.

  If you follow the money - Soros, Bezos, etc - all the libertards have bought up massive blocks of not only MSM but all the alternative media - which drives their "message monopoly" agenda.

  Continued censorship of the non-liberal voice.

• this was the worst decision. ridiculous. someone needs to create a BI competitor that has a commnet section. you can steal their whole business easily now. comments was by far the best part of BI. It made BI. if anything you should drop the articles.

  seriously.

  • I am struggling to go to BI anymore. I am still going but its just not the same and I find I go less and care less.

    BI sucks now

    It was the best

    The comment section got a little crazier during the election. so what.

    bring it back

• While it's true that many comments were in poor taste. Some had immense value - more so than the article in a significant number of cases. Without the astute (sometimes biting) comments of a couple of great readers BI is just another propaganda outlet. I've almost completely stopped going to the site/reading articles these days.

• Corporate media has decided censorship is the best way to squash the peasants. This is not going to end well for them. They will lose audience and clicks and disappear without participation.

• I have a mental list of sites that don’t allow comments: I never click on those sites.

  • Exactly. Why read an article ONLINE if you can't write a comment about it? You want me to read? Let me DISCUSS! If you don't want my voice heard, I won't read your words.

• It was rare that a comment flagged was ever removed by BI.
  The articles did seem to be quite biased toward companies like Apple.
  It was also rare to find any worthwhile information in many of the articles. When I commented that they seem to use unflattering pics of Trump all the time, but when the one time saw that they used an unflattering pic of HRC, which "trumped" all the ones of Trump. My comment was removed and the pic of HRC also.
  But I agree with the majority here, I came for the comments. I admit, leading up to the election, there was a lot of crappy comments, but if BI would respond to the "flagged" comments, and remove them, they may still have comments. I think they were behind the time and were not using automated filtering to get rid of the really bad comments. Kind of lame for a "Silicon Valley" wag.

• The comment section was the main reason I went to BI. I'm not going there just to read their cheap, clickbait journalism.

  • Same here, fun to read the comments and different opinons.