Whether it's comments, posts, email, OS, government etc... what you don't control, you don't own. Period. I enjoy reading comments (despite their negative vibe

Whether it's comments, posts, email, OS, government etc... what you don't control, you don't own. Period. I enjoy reading comments (despite their negative vibe lately) since there are still some nuggets of gold amid the asinine BS. The deluge of rubbish is really from unmoderated places (news blogs are particularly notorious), but if an admin keeps on top of these, comments are a beautiful thing. Another blog losing comments is a damn shame. It's just one more nail in the coffin for interraction away from the shadow of walled gardens. I think this was already mentioned elsewhere on HN, but Stallman was right.