I found this thread fascinating. It seems the more heavily people comment, the less they care about reading comments all the time: http://akkartik.name/blog/20

I found this thread fascinating. It seems the more heavily people comment, the less they care about reading comments all the time: http://akkartik.name/blog/2012-11-24-18-10-36-soc http://akkartik.name/blog/2012-11-24-18-10-36-soc. It's almost like there's a law of conservation at work. The law of conservation of human attention. Comments can be used either as background hum or as salient landmarks.