Coming Soon From Gawker: A Way To Get Rid Of 'Boring' Comments?

There are spam comments, flaming comments, troll comments … and then there are just plain old boring comments.

It’s a problem that faces many news websites.

So Nick Denton, the influential head of Gawker Media, said at a conference hosted by Advertising Age on Tuesday that his company was developing a product to rid his sites of comments he considers boring.

“I would like an AT&T engineer who has an explanation for why AT&T’s data coverage is weak in New York and San Francisco to feel comfortable in our comment environment,” he said.

Indeed,

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