We hoped that a few days of the new comment feature would settle some of the misuse down, but it hasn’t and we’ve removed it again. Most of the comments were just confusing new users and annoying existing users. We’re re-thinking the architecture of the comment function and we’ll reintroduce it when we think we can make it more useful.

Some of the suggestions to us have been very helpful, including the suggestion from a user to allow posts only from the downloaded area, so people who’ve actually downloaded (or tried to) could comment. We also think that allowing commentary only from premium users would limit the more frivolous of them, and perhaps even having it be an entirely premium-only feature.

For certain, if we re-introduce the feature, we’ll have a bury function similar to digg or other large-scale commentary sites.

Comments are off for this post, but feel free to discuss in our user forum. Thanks.