Allowing comments increases engagement but it means that underneath your article is a bunch of text saying it's wrong. I imagine the engagement/propaganda trade

Allowing comments increases engagement but it means that underneath your article is a bunch of text saying it's wrong. I imagine the engagement/propaganda tradeoff is something to balance. Also, we've forgotten how to write software. First, things had their own comment systems, and then they had Disqus, and now they don't have comments at all.