# I PIT the USA Today comment section

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa-today-comment-section/773568>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 1, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa-today-comment-section/773568 "2016-12-01T22:43:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Salvor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Salvor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salvor)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa-today-comment-section/773568/1 "2016-12-01T22:43:24Z")

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Not talking about the quality of the comments, I’m talking about the coding behind the site and how it operates.  
Here is an example from a talk radio host crapping on democrats for not getting as much support in national elections

> **[3 Democratic delusions: Michael Medved](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/29/popular-vote-clinton-democrats-trump-medved-column/94545452/)**
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> Trends in the popular vote signal trouble for Hillary Clinton's party.

Look at how that comment section behaves!!!

I had an advertisement pop up and when I closed it the comments section went away as well. scrolling is broken, normally you can two finger scroll on a trackpad to scroll down, but not there! Not even on android mobile devices can you scroll down. If I load a page up on a tablet or my phone, I can only see a TINY section of comments because I LITERALLY cannot scroll down because it can’t distinguish scrolling on the comment section vs the entire page.

Maybe ios devices work properly, but I refuse to cut my eyes out and use apple to get this trashy website to work properly.

WORST, comment design, EVER!