<i>comment re-integration from multiple sources aimed at the consumer is a losing strategy as it only serves the producer.</i><p>I think this is a pretty interesting hypothesis. It certainly applies to my usage pattern. I detest aggregations of comments from multiple sources. It's like trying to watch six television channels at once, three of which are inevitably tuned to the home shopping network.<p>You can't have a meaningful conversation with a thousand participants. It's much easier to have a hundred conversations with ten people each, conversations in which all parties are acquainted or at least share a set of common assumptions. Our languages, our social habits, perhaps even our brains themselves are designed for that use case.