Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita...
by rapind on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:45PM
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They actually have a deal with google where all of their comments are directly indexed and attributed to the sites (likely similar to canonical references).
It used to be a problem a couple years ago, and sites would then use the API to load in comments and include them server-side. Obviously this wasn't ideal, but it's a solved problem now.
Worst case is off-topic comments that take time to remove, significantly worse than nobody using it.