• Guardian (UK), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:22 PM

Risking its readership's loyalty, gadget blog Engadget has temporarily taken away the ability to comment on posts. "Over the past few days the tone in comments has really gotten out of hand," Engadget explains. "What is normally a charged -- but fun -- environment for our users and editors has become mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations... and that's just not acceptable."

According to Engadget, "Our commenting community makes up only a small percentage of our readership (and the bad eggs an even smaller part of that number)." If the commenters are typical, the Guarian speculates, then they'll be about 9-10% of the readers. Rather than a revolt, the move could very well restore order to the site, and give the majority of its readers a greater sense of security. Only time will tell.

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