How This Atlantic Editor Plans to Make Trolls Irrelevant

"Most of all, I want to help The Atlantic become the most notable place for readers to become contributors."

Chris-BodennerA week after TheAtlantic.com unveiled its redesign, senior editor Chris Bodenner put up his first post since rejoining the organization in April to work on reader engagement. Featuring reactions to the redesign sent to hello@theatlantic.com, the email address created as an outlet for reader opinions, Bodenner laid it out there–a long chain of complaints and compliments interspersed with Bodenner’s own annotations.

It was the overture to an ongoing experiment, an attempt to reward those who comment thoughtfully, while muting the impact of trolls who gleefully spew their negativity across the comment sections of almost every news site on the Web.

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