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@henryquinney: Very well said. I do understand the value of comments, like with an article a week or two ago where the owner of a small business in Chile was able to connect with hundreds of people and gain a lot of attention for his awesome business (his Strava handle is Fifty_shades_of_bicycle, though I don't remember his PB account). I also like seeing some of the gross things people say being downvoted (although sometimes they are upvoted to a similar degree at the same time). I think people, me included, struggle with our love for cycling and its many disciplines, but have to constantly reckon with the reality of mountain biking culture and its vast downfalls and toxicity. Imagine how it would feel being someone who had experienced sexual abuse or assault, and upon entering the cycling world suddenly finding a PB article where hundreds of people are defending the use of "TheRapist" as a trail name in Kelowna, or defending the use of violent abuse against women and Nazi imagery in YT advertising. Or imagine someone whose relatives died from Covid entering the cycling world and then finding hordes of anti-vaccine comments and user content. I feel like to keep pushing this sport into the 21st century it's important to find a way to welcome these people instead of making them think that mountain bikers are an awful group of people. As I mentioned before, I think that the people who make these comments are overrepresented in comments sections compared to the rest of the cyclists in the world, but it's hard to remember that sometimes. Many of us like to greatly support the idea of "getting more people on bikes", but as long as people are able to say such awful things on here I think we are getting in the way of that mission. I don't know if the solution is to get rid of comment sections or to limit them or to just try and moderate better, but something's gotta give.