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It intuitively makes sense to me that: a) Low-quality comments in blogs are a turn off.
b) I often will privately post something on G+ or facebook. Or even twitter (not private, but hard to aggregate). These options didn't exist back in 2005, which may have been the peak of comments. The article also links to more anecdotes that Techcrunch and somebody else saw a drop-off in comments recently. None of this is saying comments are doomed. In many ways hubski is yet another disaggregated, semi-private place to chat about stories, and that is swell. It's just that comments require care to get right.