Above the Law Scraps Comments Section, Points to Media Shift

Some big news in the legal media world: Above the Law has scrapped its comments section, its managing editor David Lat announced in a post on Tuesday.

Citing a shift in how readers engage with stories and pointing to sites such as Wired, NiemanLab and Digiday, which have also eliminated comments sections, Lat wrote that online commenting is a thing of the past.

Per his ATL post, titled Farewell to Comments :

Today the comments are not what they once were. Although occasionally insightful or funny, ATL comments nowadays are generally fewer in number, not very substantive (often just inside jokes among the commentariat), ...