1. delete your email address 2. change your password to some random characters 3. logout Now commenting will require you to signup with a new account, which is

1. delete your email address 2. change your password to some random characters 3. logout Now commenting will require you to signup with a new account, which is an extra hurdle. (I was spending a ton of time commenting in the past, and this has worked for me). There are millions of people online, and most of them are wrong. You could waste your whole life telling people they're wrong, or you could go and be productive. Also after a while once you withdraw from commenting, you realize that only a couple of articles a day are actually worth reading these days. Another point to make is that HN and Reddit are not "user voted". They put out that illusion, but they both have editors who push up stories they want, or bury stories that they don't want there. Additionally, they do not have any issue censoring comments if you disagree with the hivemind. Get some offline hobbies as well.