I think dealing with trolls is easier when you have a community of expats and [something]-philes as your audience.   They tend to be more tightly knit, smallish community with waves of users as people cycle in and out of the country.  Because of that the somewhat heavy handed moderation at japantoday was okay.  It was more a place for expats to have more or less agreeable opinions about things.<p>In those cases the volume was rather low and expats were just glad to have a forum so they were more forgiving.  It wasn&#x27;t as if they had an alternative source for copy-pasta news translated to English.  So they were a more or less captive audience, regardless.<p>At a site like CNN, etc.  The volume is too large and the kind of moderation people would put up with would be different.  So their decision is different.<p>[edit] you&#x27;d need more than one person going thru the firehose at CNN and you&#x27;d have a backlash if the pruning displease any of the constituents.