the-great-beyond

Great work, WaPo. I'm a first-time subscriber as of November, 2016 and I'm happy with my subscription aside from one thing: commenting.

I also subscribe to other broadsheets that allow comments such as the NYTimes, and in comparison, your comments are insanely-overrun with Kremlin/Breitbart/MAGA propagandists trolls who spam comments incessantly with propaganda and disinfo. It's out of control. They derail threads, troll shamelessly, spread lies, and subvert intelligent discourse with lazy Kremlin talking points. Every single article that has to do with the Trump-Russian collusion is swarmed and saturated by these trolls.

You have no flagging or banning system to control the problem, and for well-read commentators like me, it's incredibly frustrating. And in light of Comey's and Roger's comments at that first HIC hearing about the ubiquitous online armies of Kremlin spammers, it's frankly irresponsible.

So my question: do you have any plan to control the toxic disinfo spread by Kremlin/Breitbart/MAGA spammers in your comments? It'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

No worries. Thanks for making yourself available to address my concerns. I'll send you an email in the next 24...and now that I see you're on Reddit, I'm tempted to PM you, too!

Goddamn...thanks Gene! My real point is that I'd like to see WaPo pick-up traction as a community -- more like the NYTimes -- as opposed to just a drive-through for breaking political scoops. There's a lot of room for improvement.

I'll contact Mr. Amenabar directly with any additional concerns, and thank you kindly for passing-on my message and his info. FYI, I always flag trolls as 'spam', but I've never actually seen a diminuendo of Kremlin spammers in my seven months of subscription.

Thanks again, and happy scooping!