They were a thing of the past shortly after they started. I remember back in my blogging days with Movable Type and I wrote an entry that angered A LOT of fans

They were a thing of the past shortly after they started. I remember back in my blogging days with Movable Type and I wrote an entry that angered A LOT of fans of a popular radio show host. It was impossible for me to keep up with the offensive and hateful comments they were leaving on literally every single post, so I ended up disabling the entire thing. It didn't get much better with Blogger either. Now much of the time I see Facebook Comments embedded, or something like Disqus. Comment horror stories didn't help Digg much, if I recall correctly. bots, spam, and uncontrollable political nonsense took most of them out. I don't think it's too weird. It takes a lot of the stress off of the blog owners, and to some extent, the responsibility. Blogs weren't alone either. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news-sites-got-rid-of-reader-comments/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news...