zlacker

> Social media ruined that. Everyone is now on their own soap box posting comments of drivel from their sub-optimal self-conscious parroting asinine talking points about how one characterized group of statistics ruined it for everyone else.

Partially agree, partially disagree. Blog comments were already dead when SEO fraudsters discovered that "linkbacks" could be abused for spam even easier than comments were.

>>mschus+(OP)
Yep. Thats 99% of the culprit.

>>mschus+(OP)
Correct. Site owners moved their communities over to social media pages because they couldn't handle moderating the waves of spam comments that littered every single post on their site. They figured, let Facebook/Twitter handle moderation. Then FB closed the gates, de-emphasized posts with outbound links and now site owners are screwed.