New York Times to Automate Comments on Stories

TheWrap: The New York Times will move to a more automated comments system that rewards good commenters with fewer checks to go through before their comments are published, the media giant announced. “We will be much less dependent on moderation,” Bassey Etim, editor who oversees commenting, said. Within a few months, the Times will move to a system in which readers with a “history of a lot of good comments that have been approved” will have their comments go through more quickly.