Comments Off

Inspired by the discussion started by Matt Gemmell, we’ve decided to turn comments off, as an experiment. Comments are always something I personally have felt uncomfortable having on Second Quest, primarily because most comments we get are of two types: agreement with no substance, and disagreement with no substance. I don’t have a problem with either, but they’re simply not interesting to read unless you’re us.

Aside from that, having comments on provides a way for people we don’t know, most of whom are anonymous, to have a voice on our site. We never censor comments, and since we take a curatorial approach to the writing and the podcast, it’s making less and less sense to have a free-for-all in the comments.

We hope you’ll use other means to interact with us: email or Twitter, both of which can be found here. We’ll publish an update to this experiment after we feel enough time has passed. And as always, thanks for reading, we appreciate it.

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