One site owner's view on comments

http://pando.com/2014/08/19/comment-sections-are-on-their-way-out/

Authored by: Bryan Goldberg.

Bryan is an entrepreneur in New York and San Francisco. He is the Founder and CEO of Bustle.com. He previously founded Bleacher Report, and currently advises several startups.

Major achievements, but it does not mean that he's correct on commenting systems.

No one method exists for managing user-contributed comments, especially with comments.

I have no problem with sites that prohibit comments. Nothing exists that says sites must permit user-contributed comment. It's a big web. Users can comment by other means, like with their own blog sites.