I’m pretty disappointed that 37signals has shut down comments on the Signal vs. Noise blog. I find reading other people’s reactions one of the best parts of reading the blog, but I can understand the reason for shutting them down temporarily.

In the long term, I think a better idea is to limit the number of comments on any one post so that the comments don’t get a chance to go off topic or turn drastically negative. I rarely read past 30-50 comments myself, and I really doubt that many other people do either. My suggestion is to set a limit of 30 comments and see how that goes.

UPDATE: _Why just reminded us that if you are using Mousehole, you can leave comments via Hoodwink.d.