Personally, no. They distract me from content and I often find myself jumping to comments directly if I know there are some. I'm from a region where they're pr

Personally, no. They distract me from content and I often find myself jumping to comments directly if I know there are some. I'm from a region where they're pretty common on news sites, so I've created a Firefox add-on that hides the comments from about 40 local websites that I chose via Alexa ranks.