All of these isolated occurrences do not seem to add up to any kind of single trend. Upvoted for instance funnels into reddit, which is a commenting board par e

All of these isolated occurrences do not seem to add up to any kind of single trend. Upvoted for instance funnels into reddit, which is a commenting board par excellence. It wouldn't make sense to have comments on any kind of "reddit Digest". There is a slightly disturbing trend involving sites which try to push an agenda banning comments, but the choice of examples in this article obscures that particular issue.