This isn't just about music- it's about all internet sites everywhere. Commenting may be an integral part of the internet/media world, but it's a shitty part of that world. Commenters are, by and large, total idiots. The trolls who make up 95% of the comments made on the internet, are dwarfed by the 95% of internet readers who never make a single comment.
When you think about the context of a music blog, you have to ask what commenters add to the mix. They're going to read the post anyway- who cares what they think about the post? The writer of the blog KNOWS what his/her readership will think before they post, so there is no "feedback" potential. It does demonstrate interest level among amateur enthusiasts, but that function is vastly outweighed by the inferiority of the discourse. In the context of music blogs, comment culture is the media equivalent of feeding Christians to the Lions: It keeps the plebeians distracted from their own misery.
It's kind of like the jury that sentenced Socrates to death: Nice that Athens had a jury system way back when- democratic even- but those jurors were obviously idiots, because they voted to kill one of the greatest philsophers in the history of the world.
So I saw, you're better off without people who "like to comment."
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