Yahoo now pulls a discussion features from its news site in coming weeks. Before, readers were permitted to post comments on individual news stories. The message boards were actually suspended, according to a note from Yahoo’s general manager for news, Neil Budde, as they permitted “a small number of vocal users to rule the discussion.”

Commenter on Yahoo message boards are not really mild mannered bunch – they could range between thoughtful and eloquent to downright loony. Comments on any random Yahoo news story may even have included bizarre rants about the war in Iraq or may be in odd observations about Jon Stewart’s hair.

Yahoo says it is taking comments on news stories offline until it is completely rolls out discussion forums based on news topics that it hopes, would “foster a better discussion for all of our readers.”

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