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Looking at the comment section I feel assured that comments are a thing of the past. I wonder if those people would take the hurdle to send an email instead.

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The death of the comment section has been greatly exaggerated...one comment, that the moderator didn't even see fit to remove. Ain't much.

Also funny that you wonder if people would take the hurdle to send an email instead. In this particular case, the author has in fact written about the torrent of email abuse he faces on multiple occasions, for example here [1]. Is his 2021 post evidence that email is a thing of the past?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

> one comment, that the moderator didn't even see fit to remove. Ain't much.

It's not only about the comments we can see, but also about those comments that get filtered out by the moderator

> Also funny that you wonder if people would take the hurdle to send an email instead.

Of course you also get non-friendly emails. I was wondering if the people that leave those comments would send an email instead.

> filtered out by the moderator

If that's what he left in and responded to, what do you think he's taking out?

> wondering if the people that leave those comments would send an email instead

The evidence presented is that he gets abusive emails with a comment section...why would he get less emails if he closed the comment section?

Of course he will not get less email when closing the comment section. The question was if he will get more email abuse when closing the comment section.

From experience, yes. "Those" people will send an email, add you on LinkedIn, and call you landline if they don't like the content of your blog.

You mean the single flagged comment? There are more comments talking about the bad comments than there are bad comments.

At the time I wrote my comment here there were only one comment from Taran telling us what he gives about the topic and Daniel's reply to it. Should have made this more clear. It was to expect that comments will explode from HN visitors.

Well, they didn't, so this thread just ended up polluting the comment section with the very noise it sought to lament. HN comments in my experience are far more reasonable than you're describing, and the entitled "free stuff" attitude only comes up in response to things like big corporations yanking support for a project (see: Docker). Everyone loves curl and nobody is complaining about the amazing software built and maintained primarily by a single developer.

I don't know who you are replying to. I never spoke about 'free stuff' nor the quality of HN comments.

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