The Guardian newspaper has launched a new section of its website entitled: “The Web We Want”, a series focusing on the question, “How can we end online abuse, and have better conversations on the web?” This follows on from January, when the readers’ editor Stephen Pritchard announced that because “certain subjects – race, immigration and Islam in particular – attract an unacceptable level of toxic commentary” comments would no longer be open on articles related to these topics – unless multiple moderators are available and only where they believe a “positive debate” is possible. This means that for many controversial pieces which the Guardian fears will attract negative reader reaction – including articles about feminism – commenting is now disabled. In order to understand more about below-the-line comments, with a view to “limiting abuse”, the Guardian analysed “patterns of moderation” in the comments over the years. The data revealed which writers’ articles attracted the most “blocked comments” — ones regarded by moderators to be “abusive or disruptive” and so deleted. In an article entitled “Comments on articles are valuable. So how to weed out the trolls?”, Joseph Reagle considers commenting systems on other websites and outlines what he thinks they get right and wrong. He