I used to read language log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) a lot. I get why they disabled comments for most of th

I used to read language log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) a lot. I get why they disabled comments for most of their posts but I kind of lost interest after they did that. I am not really sure but I feel like popularity of sites like reddit increased after a lot of blogs and news sites disabled comments.