And when called out on it reply that the comments are often more interesting than the article which is a) trivially true when you don't read the article and b) probably because bickering in comments is more emotionally satisfying and requires a shorter attention span than reading a rather long article (I'm not immune, seeing as I'm now bickering about the bickering).

No no, thats reddit. We shun this here. They embraced it long ago.

or at least, that's what i guess is written in the guidelines