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A lot of mainstream media sites have removed comments sections from their articles, there's no user interaction left on those.

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To be fair, comments _must_ be moderated or they turn into a cesspool in short order. A like-dislike count does not have that problem, though. And YouTube isn't removing the comments (yet).

That's what blogs are for. Write a blog post about the article. If it's good enough, it will get traffic.

If you believe blog posts are the same thing as comments, why did you write a comment to say so?

Not every site is the same. News sites in the US turn off their comments because it's too difficult to moderate in the current political environment.

Hacker News isn't a content site, but is mainly created for commenting. It is less political than the news sites which removed comments. It can also handle the moderation more easily than news sites partly because it has a very strong ugliness and usability filter.

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