The Salt Lake Tribune will move next month to a new comments platform intended to improve and expand the conversations about our journalism.
The platform is built by Orem-based World Table, which has been developing interactive platforms for news websites for several years. It has enhanced tools for incentivizing productive comments and minimizing trolling. It also gives commenters and comment viewers more control over the comments they see.
At the heart of the platform is a scoring system. Users' scores are determined by their authenticity, and the quality and quantity of their comments. Other readers can grade comments negatively or positively.