I just don't think the online news media will learn anything from tangential HN discussions so we might as well do away with these types of comments and either

I just don't think the online news media will learn anything from tangential HN discussions so we might as well do away with these types of comments and either discuss the article's content or not visit the link at all. I think that's the proper etiquette, unless of course there's something exceptional worth noting. I too wish this terrible UX was an exception, don't get me wrong.