I've gone and back and forth on the usefulness of comments on a site. While some will tell you they increase the sense of community for the readers and foster lively debates, they must not have read the comments on 98% of the sites I personally frequent. There are some sites which do have rich communities of commenters which add depth and personal experience to the articles, but there are many, many more which end up being a sea of "first posts" and "fanboi" accusations.
By not enabling comments on this site, I am not trying to stifle responses to my missives, but encouraging them to be contained in other forums. Write your own blog pointing out my numerous factual errors and slippery slopes. Email me your spelling corrections and mischaracterizations of numbers. Twitter me your numerous death threats until admit the tacit usefulness of online office suites. Learn semaphore to signal me when I can't see the forest for the trees. However you want to relay the information to me, I welcome it. I will not, however, police a comment section, filtering out spam for online medications and great deals from deposed Nigerian leaders.
Of course, with no one reading this blog, there is also no one to comment on it.
