Political posts with no comment section

[JTWrenn]

Sometimes politics crosses with tech. One such instance is talked about in the current TomsHardware article on Trump tariff's. It mentions Trump directly several times then points out the actual effects of what his tariffs will be on several industries and focuses on tech. I think that is all well and good. It was mostly about the facts and very little about the political situation.

However, I do feel that if you are gonig to go there...then allow the forum discussion on it. If you don't want the discussion here, and you don't want to fully dive in...then just don't do the article. It really feels like something that should be discussed if it is news worthy enough, and then if it gets out of hand shut down the forums section or...just don't go there.

It's tricky to find the line there, but turning of comments all together but then still posting something that is directly very much at one candidate feels....sketchy.

Just my thoughts on it as far as what Toms does for their article choice. I feel like if you want to dive in do, but if you don't...don't. This feels half <Mod Edit>

 

[SHaines]

Sometimes politics crosses with tech. One such instance is talked about in the current TomsHardware article on Trump tariff's. It mentions Trump directly several times then points out the actual effects of what his tariffs will be on several industries and focuses on tech. I think that is all well and good. It was mostly about the facts and very little about the political situation.

However, I do feel that if you are gonig to go there...then allow the forum discussion on it. If you don't want the discussion here, and you don't want to fully dive in...then just don't do the article. It really feels like something that should be discussed if it is news worthy enough, and then if it gets out of hand shut down the forums section or...just don't go there.

It's tricky to find the line there, but turning of comments all together but then still posting something that is directly very much at one candidate feels....sketchy.

Just my thoughts on it as far as what Toms does for their article choice. I feel like if you want to dive in do, but if you don't...don't. This feels half <Mod Edit>

Hey there,

I hear you on this, for sure. For clarity, whenever an article is published by Tom's Hardware, it automatically creates a forum entry for that article. It's a comment bridge that allows seamless discussion on articles as they get published, but it also means articles get published and a forum discussion is created shortly thereafter automatically.

When that happens, we close the comments so people can still click through from the article to the forums and see the comments are locked. If we just deleted the forum post, the article link would take people to a dead page, which is much uglier and less helpful.

We don't have any plans to allow political discussion in the foreseeable future.