I used to be someone who defended comments in general. I think they are only good for a certain subset of usecases, such as college campus blogs, where differen

I used to be someone who defended comments in general. I think they are only good for a certain subset of usecases, such as college campus blogs, where different voices can and should be heard. But other sites often do comments rather poorly, and only on the occasional tech blog will one find useful information in a comment, but not usually.