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fresbrg
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Seeking Alpha is a business and investment oriented website. However reading the comments on many, many articles is like reading the Russian Troll posts.  Political extremists of every persuasion seem to think the purpose of this site is to throw bombs at those who see the world differently than they do.

You should establish and strictly enforce commentary parameters.  Limit comments to legitimate business and finance posts.  I am a finance professional and I fed up with having to sift through a ton of political polemics to see if there might be something of value said by someone.

It seems like ‘Trolls Rule!’ has become a pretty accurate description of public discourse in this country.

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MKZS1ANDONLY

seems to me like time cant change for uall.

post was 3 years ago and im still here

in certain permission.

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bagholder1

i would consider premium if people would stay on topic and stop constant bullying. look! even in this post you have someone doing it! why not let authors control it?

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Michael1944
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not true.

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noslptillmnhtn

Reviving an old thread here on the commentary section losing out to non-essential discussions (particularly name-calling, political posturing, etc), I wonder if a simple development solution could be to simply deactivate viewing comments for those who choose. While comments and content do not go hand-in-hand, they do tend to mar the credibility of the site.

If the comment section of a support post about inappropriate comments is full of inappropriate comments, all hope may be lost for the purely financial minded. 

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igor555

haha you dont remove anything. i report comments all the time from the same people and not one gets removed and those people keep posting week after week

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AEGISBMD

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RegisFinancial
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@RegisFinancial, can you please expand on why you say our moderation system is atrocious? We'd be glad to address your concerns if you can be more specific.

Thank you.

The reason you have to ask that question proves that moderation is lacking. 

If you want an example go read through comment threads for Boeing. It’s constantly filled with comments of no substance related to the article, non-sequiturs, and childish petulance that look like what you’d find on Facebook. There is almost zero value to comment discord and the voting system should be similar to Reddit. 

*I tried to provide some screenshots but as usual the app is buggy. 

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SA Editor Jeanne Yael Klempner
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@RegisFinancial, can you please expand on why you say our moderation system is atrocious? We'd be glad to address your concerns if you can be more specific.

Thank you.

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RegisFinancial

The comment moderation system is atrocious and I’d say about 5% of the comments on any given article are helpful, while the rest are trash. I’ve stopped using StockTwits for the same reason and am about to abandon this app as well.  

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Capt Jack Daniels

From what I've seen  its been blatantly one sided.  People are able to make political  comments with profane language assaulting the PRESIDENT  of  the UNITED  STATES  and  even after clicking  on  report abuse,  they are not removed.  Others while not  mentioning the President by name use even more disgraceful terminologies such as Orange Bad man.