Why No Comments?

Marco Arment concisely sums up why I turned comments off on this blog:

Plenty of sites get good commments, but it’s not the common case. I can’t identify any general metrics on whether you’ll have good comments, but writing opinion pieces to an audience of tech people is definitely not a recipe for civil, intelligent discussion in traditional commenting systems.

The signal/noise ratio on almost all comment systems is far, far too low to bother with in almost all cases. And personal time and energy are far, far too valuable to waste in dealing with such things.