You can't manage comments in a site that doesn't have a sense of community. Letters of Note's blog post usually get traffic from random links and e-mails by oth

You can't manage comments in a site that doesn't have a sense of community. Letters of Note's blog post usually get traffic from random links and e-mails by other people - just look at the recent letter from a former American slave - which just brings together all these random people. For a site with as much traffic as LoN, it would take hiring someone to moderate all the comments to reach a decent level of discussion.