Comment by gumby

> The result is a …dialog—not between a commenter and people who replied to his comment—but between different commenters who steal the focus of the discussion to their own opinion.

I struggle to see what’s wrong with that. If I watch a movie with a friend, should our post-viewing discussion be restricted to certain subjects? The wide ranging discussions in the comments can be irrelevant to me or quite fascinating and more relevant to me. The original article deserves no priority either way.

Also, the author talks about the effort of selecting photos. I’m glad they footnote. But please, if you want me to read your article don’t go to this effort. If there’s a photo it should be germane and often easy to to get, like the picture of the HN front page. But an orange box with the HN logo and an inkblot, or the embedded video with some rando talking? That crap is just visual junk that interferes with reading and gives me at least the impression that the author isn’t serious. I understand Medium requires a junk photo or more and it’s one reason I rarely bother to follow a link to a Medium post.

BTW this comment took longer than ten seconds to write.