The Engadget edition has turned off article comments. Readers name each other like children.

Many IT sites that lack filtering / moderation of comments face a problem. Often, readers insult each other and specific IT companies, derogatory comments about the products of other firms. Some polite and pleasant people in ordinary life in the comments behave very differently, allowing the use of indecent expressions.

Because of this, an intelligent, informative discussion does not add up.

The same problem arose in the popular IT edition of Engadget, which had to go to extreme measures. Before this weekend, March 25, comments on the site were completely disabled for 7 days .

Engadget has previously disconnected comments on certain articles where the discussion went beyond the bounds of decency and developed into a quarrel. Most often this happened in articles mentioning sexual harassment at work, inequality of women or racial / national issues, but not only them. "Articles mentioning Apple are skipping into controversy iOS vs Android overflowing with elementary school level curls," the editorial office regrets. - Some commentators are attacking our authors or editors, or other commentators. Sometimes there are direct threats. And this is not to mention the problem of spam. "

The problem worsened after the introduction of the new commenting system , which caused the discontent of the readers.

Editorial Engadget believes that the seven-day moratorium can not be compared with censorship. Everyone is still free to express his opinion and publish an article in a special section of the site . Open comments via Facebook and Twitter.