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The general level of reader commentary on the SMH website is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.

This isn't helped by the current trend for their articles to be link bait or scraped off a real tech source, rather than anything approximating journalism.

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I think Fairfax as a whole is fairly lax when it comes to comment moderation.

As much as I despise The Herald Sun and News Ltd., they do the whole online community thing better and the site is better for it.

I would expand that:

The general level of reader commentary on newspaper websites is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.

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