> Did DF ever allow comments on its own website?
Not that I'm aware. There's some discussion about it in this post from 2010:
Not that I'm aware. There's some discussion about it in this post from 2010:
> You write on your site; I write on mine. That’s a response. I don’t use comments on Wilcox’s site to respond publicly to his pieces, but somehow it’s unfair that he can’t use comments on my site to respond to mine? What kind of sense is that even supposed to make?
Also, by not hosting my own comments, all public commentary on my writing is thus out of my control. I don't get to block comments I don't like here, or on Mastodon, or Twitter/X, or Bluesky. I think that's actually for the better.
DF is a blog and was conceived that way. HN is a discussion site. The two forms (blogging and internet discussions) are different. They serve different purposes and require different management styles.
The discussions here do seem to be tamped down in some ways, and as a user, that takes something away from the experience.
Relatedly: in general, I think "hypocritical" is not a big gotcha that ends discussions. Different things serve different purposes.