Pictured story, https://hackernoon.com/the-joy-of-using-single-purpose-tech Anyone can comment on ! All comments are reviewed by the individual writer or staff editor before publication on the story page. We hope this moderation approach will encourage high-quality human discussions about technology or whatever it is that is driving our collective futures. HackerNoon This publishing approach does ask for something from you - that in today’s overloaded internet, you rarely get asked for - . There is a and she or he or they will read and review your human words. IMHO internet comments too often and/or instant gratification instead of thoughtfulness about how to help the next visitor. patience second human on the other side of the screen favor bots At , we’ve learned a lot in and have tried a number of different commenting systems (discourse / medium / disqus / gun)… Naturally, we reached the conclusion to start over with one that is more native to our core product, the content management system that powers . The text editor itself is the - it’s a clean typing experience with a few extras like bullet points, breakout quotes, and code blocks. HackerNoon publishing tens of thousands of stories HackerNoon 3.0 text editor build with outline open source This is HackerNoon’s first native story commenting system, we are very open to comments below about how it could work. if you think all this second human rule quality curation is bullshit, or just think you have a story/AMA/real-time-words-craving - anyone can instantaneously comment on your story if you toggle YES to in your story settings. Sidenote: Townhall Mode Right now (in QA), and . All HackerNoon accounts can . writers can review submitted and published comments on their stories here manage comments settings here find their published comments on their profile pages And one of the great things about comments is that they extend to words and code, creating extra value for our users. So what do you say - how should our internet comments work tomorrow?