# Should Discourse make an effort to become a viable comment platform?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-make-an-effort-to-become-a-viable-comment-platform/274455
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [August 9, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-make-an-effort-to-become-a-viable-comment-platform/274455 "2023-08-09T04:53:00Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-make-an-effort-to-become-a-viable-comment-platform/274455/12 "2023-08-26T19:44:47Z")

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> [@Marcello\_Iaia](#):
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> Understanding that this isn’t at all attractive for CDCK, I would think this could be handled in improving the [Wordpress or WooCommerce plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-the-wp-discourse-wordpress-plugin/223489),

Interestingly, I’ve recently been wondering about reducing the scope of this project to _making Discourse a viable commenting system for WordPress based news sites_. With that approach, most of the technical objections that have been raised in this topic could be easily addresses - including adding the functionality to allow users to comment directly on the main article. The existing WordPress plugin could serve as a starting point for the project. Within the next few days I’ll update this topic with more details about how it could be implemented.

> [@Marcello\_Iaia](#):
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> As a separate note, I think it’s relevant to point out that there are legal and resource concerns newsrooms have around user-generated content.

Do you have any idea if the legal concerns would be less if user generated content that contained potential misinformation was allowed to exist and be discussed in a private Discourse topic, but was not displayed in the public facing article’s comment section?

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