Making the personal choice to eschew comments is absolutely fine, but the vestigial thing is just silly. SlateStarCodex for example thrives on comments. They’re

Making the personal choice to eschew comments is absolutely fine, but the vestigial thing is just silly. SlateStarCodex for example thrives on comments. They’re not working for you, ok, but don’t kid yourself about the reasons why that is, or generalize to the whole net. It may just be that someone who wears their attitude on their sleeve attracts a disproportionate percentage of unproductive assholes after all.