User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-86.82.253.84-20120808224336/@comment-1957439-20120809030159

@Second anon:

"Uselessness" is subjective and not something that can be moderated or measured. What I find useless wil be different from what you find useless. Making some kind of rogue average out of what people think is useless by using a voting system just turns it into a game of who even cares to vote and what they think.

Making extra options to view or not view comments is needless and, if you bothered to read your comment back to yourself, rather selfish.

To you, it's, "If you don't like comments, you don't have to read them." To me, it's, "If I don't like comments, now I have to go do something in order to stop viewing them." You can even argue until you're blue in the face about how "simple and easy" it would be for me to avoid viewing comments, because you're arguing for your own preference.

In the end, mine, yours, and every other comment hasn't produced more than a heap of cowshit for constructive and innovative thought. There's a "talk page" idea for things, though, that might be the only good that can be gotten out of this.