I removed the comments system from it, because in my past blogs, comments were rarely useful. If a post is interesting enough to need comments, it usually ends on social media anyway, where people can comment there (like HN, Reddit, Facebook, and so on)
- Freed me from having to monitor any conversation and its contents
- Helped disguise how low-traffic the blog is (nothing says low traffic more than a single comment)
- As the Svbtle guys point out, most comments are relatively uninformed and tend to add little. There are exceptions such as HN and the StackOverflow family where intelligent(ish) discourse is the norm but the internet at large is wild and untamed.
- Were I to run my own comment structure I would feel obligated to provide security the guarantee that there are no XSS or other code injection vulnerabilities stemming from user-submitted text.
Consequently my blog has no commenting functionality.
Click on the title of any blog post.
Scroll to bottom and click read comments?
Am I missing something?
SSO, threaded comments, reputation/karma/pruning, etc. are features that seldom exist on blogs.
(Yes, if you use the default Wordpress comments, don't, but that's another topic.)
imho, the latter reason is idiotic. It's the quality of writing that determines the quality of comments. (I have written quite a few blog posts on the topic, as I sorta gained my fame/infamy through blog comments)
[1] See Medium's reason for dropping comments. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/medium-becomes-a-more-full-...