Comment by longrod

Not sure why the author is complaining. Commenting on a blog and writing a blog have never been confused. No one has ever compared commenting to writing a blog.

Commenting has it's own place. If you don't like the comments, maybe you shouldn't post on HN. I don't know how ignorant you have to be to literally pass by the very purpose of a site like HN. It's literally built to hold discussions. Commenting is the _only_ thing you do here. There's no chat, no fancy reactions, no groups, no "pages", nothing. Just an input box and a button to express your opinion.

The UX could be better but that's an excuse for the lazy. You don't want to scroll? That's on you, not the website. You wrote a very long blog and I can't scroll past the first paragraph. Is the fault yours or mine?

With that said, not every link gets 3000 comments. The example given is an exception. Most of the time the comments stick to the point with a lot of constructive opinions in them. You can't silence the crowd, you can't control the crowd, and you certainly can't own the crowd. So just let the crowd be. If you don't like that, refrain from posting stuff here.