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/
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.
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?