Daring Fireball with comments

Isn't Hacker News Daring Fireball's comment section? :)<p>(Either those comments are a bad attempt at satire or they perfectly illustrate just why Daring Fireball doesn't have comments.)

A quick search led me to <a href="http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment-free/" rel="nofollow">http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment...</a><p>I have to say that I think Daring Fireball is better _without_ comments. I presume that this site was set up without John Gruber's consent. This raises the question: Is this a spam blog?

Oh my, are the comments <i>terrible</i>. It's like folks are posting nonsense, just to prove John Gruber right. :P<p>There's some weird synergies between this and the conversations about comment quality kicked up by Engadget temporary shutting down their comment system.

Unless you have a community really focused on good discussion with readers who treat each other with respect it's pointless to solicit comments on the web these days. It just drags down the quality content. I think it's difficult for writers to not be influenced by this small vocal minority who use web comments as an outlet for their mental health problems. Most of these comment trolls are no different than a crazy homeless person ranting &#38; raving on the street. They just want an outlet.

Looks like it was done by a John Casasanta who apparently runs MacHeist.

I actually registered urlcomments.com for this purpose. That way, people could have daringfireball.urlcomments.com, or maybe kottke.urlcomments.com.<p>I really wish kottke opened up comments on every post. When he does, it's quite spectacular. e.g. <a href="http://kottke.org/08/06/survival-tips-for-the-middle-ages" rel="nofollow">http://kottke.org/08/06/survival-tips-for-the-middle-ages</a>