Here are some of the most interesting comments we have received so far.
Through 1,216 posts and 52,574 comments, we have talked to and at and with and amongst each other.
Just some of the comments we have had from readers since launching the Guardian's Africa network earlier this week.
If you are interested in the main themes that emerged from your comments, we have created this summary of user feedback for you.
At this level, we no longer have any direct control apart from moderating the comments; we have provided the platform and the artists have taken control.
Piotr Bienkowski, the museum's deputy director, said, "This is an interim measure designed to find out public reaction because of the negative comments we have been getting".
Because our comments are moderated in order to put a premium on the quality and tone of the comments, we have not had the ability to open every article to comments.
In assessing her comments we have to remember that she was not writing of the Picasso we now know, not even of the celebrated figure from between the two world wars.
"Based on comments we have received from some of our investors and lenders and conditions in the debt and equity markets," he said, the spinoff "does not make economic sense at this time".
We're immensely grateful for the now more than 40,000 comments we have received during this beta phase, whether in person through testing sessions, through online user surveys, or comments posted in our discussion threads and via social media.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, said on Wednesday that "given the incendiary and aggressive nature" of Margot Wallström's comments, "we have made it clear that she is not welcome in Israel".
