Politico Wants to Wipe Out Nutjobs

If you click onto Politico‘s blogs these days, you can no longer freely comment on their items in the usual manner. Instead, they’re trying out a new method in which the reader must sign in through Facebook. This “beta test” has been going on since Aug. 20. They say it will last “several weeks.”

Among the purposes of trying such a test is to wipe out the more nutty commenters. In this new arrangement, it appears that site moderators will have more control over what is visible.

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