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An article on OhmyNews International reports on a growing trend:

As pioneered by OhmyNews five years ago, portals allow users to leave their comments at the bottom of every article. Actually, they earn more page views out of these readers’ comments than the stories themselves. The huge amount of page views generated by the most controversial news stories is the basic staple in attracting big name advertisers for the portals.

Naver, the Korea’s largest portal has recently released data showing the top 10 news articles that appeared on their new site — according to the number of readers’ comments each article generated. Among all the news provided by various Korean news sources, the ones OhmyNews provided virtually dominated every category, including politics and local news.

Actually, correct me if I’m mistaken, but I think Slashdot was the real pioneer in this regard.

How long, though, before other major news portals jump on the bandwagon?