Same here. If there was a lack of sites on the Internet I would do without comments, of course. But as there are plenty of news sites for any given region/topic

Same here. If there was a lack of sites on the Internet I would do without comments, of course. But as there are plenty of news sites for any given region/topic, I'm just stopping using those that don't allow comments. I think the interaction provided by comments is one of the strongest advantages of news and blogs with respect to traditional media and removing it is a step backwards. Relying on solutions like Twitter for the comments isn't the same thing. Apart from the 140-character limit that I've never liked, tweets are ephemeral and are soon lost in the information sea, apart from depending on a third party that could decide to delete them or restrict access when they like. I prefer the comments to reside with the news, where they belong.