" Cutting comments is an act of cowardice, and betrays the insecurity and inferiority the author and website feel.

   Wired has taken a half measures so far in collapsing its comments but they're just not confident enough to deal with the comments that disagree with their article, thus this trial balloon article softening the ground for what they really want to do which is to not have anyone talk back to them

So= resolved; any website that turns off commenting is to be considered an infomercial shill, NOT a trusted source for news.

  The number of times I've learned more from the comments section than the article, well I can't even count them "

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