And while I agree that it is true that there were probably solutions to trolls (such as a voting system utilizing quality points or kindness points), I suspect that the real issue here is paying for storage. That was an awful lot of activity, toxic activity, that they had to shell out for.

The site is owned by Amazon. Amazon is not just a shopping site. If you scroll down to the bottom to the footnote section, you’ll see these two services:

Amazon Drive
Unlimited Cloud Storage
From Amazon

and:

Amazon Web Services
Scalable Cloud
Computing Services

Which means . . . they can darn well afford to provide unlimited storage space. I don’t think that’s the reason for shutting down the message section.