Digital Journal introduces change to comment section

Here is the very small, but very big change we promised was coming for comment moderation. Based on more feedback from readers and contributors, Digital Journal is making a change to the site today that will now allow members to delete comments on their content. If you upload a blog, image or article, you now have the ability to control the comment feed by removing comments. The move comes as a step toward giving members the ability to take control of comment feeds and remove spam, off-topic commentary or trolling and flaming comments. Giving the content's owner the ability to control who comments on his or her work is something done across the board on many websites (i.e. YouTube, Facebook and many other sites), and we believe this is a step in the right direction for Digital Journal because it gives authors and content creators the ability to manage their own environment. For example, if someone regularly comments on your work in a negative or flaming manner, or if someone makes a comment that has nothing to do with your article, image or blog, you can choose to remove that comment if you are the creator of the work. If you wrote the article, you can now also remove comments that hinder conversation, for example. Thanks again everyone for your continued feedback. We look forward to reading more feedback in the comment feed below.