Why John Gruber doesn’t have comments on his site:
…Bijan Sabet likes comments:
…My experiences with comments haven’t been as positive. Blogs with good comments do exist, like Bijan’s and many of the small tech and VC blogs that I assume he reads, but they’re unusual.
I’m fiercely…
by Ben Lopez
Have you ever wondered why Tumblr hasn’t introduced a native comment system to make things a hell of a lot easier for everyone? Well, Marco Arment, Lead Developer at Tumblr, gave us that answer loud and clear yesterday in the blog post above.
In a word, he despises comments. In his own words, he tells us, “I’m not a very good ‘team player’…I also disagree with the widespread notion that comments are ‘discussion’, or that they form a ‘community’. “ It goes on and on with heaps of negativity and apprehension, likely stemming from a past incident (“my experiences with comments haven’t been as positive”), if you wish to read the full blog post. The problem with this is that as Tumblr’s lead developer, I’m sure he has a pretty good say in what features are (or are not) introduced to the site. This makes it likely that Mr. Arment is a major contributing factor holding Tumblr back from the next logical step, which is a native comment system.
So why do I have to go and make a big deal about it publicly? Why didn’t I just share this with him directly and be done with it? Well, I had intended to leave this response as a direct comment for him on his blog, but I think you can guess why that didn’t work out…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this because I want to bash Marco or Tumblr, and if he wants to refrain from allowing comments on his personal blog, that’s fine. I love Tumblr. I’m never going back to any other blogging platform, and trust me, I’ve tried them all. I’m saying this out of love for Tumblr, and the totally awesome community we have have. I just want to see that community aspect fleshed out with standardized comments before we start losing some of its great contributors out of frustration.
Tumblr is of course a private business, and they’re free to do as they please. But if this was my company, I’d be looking past my own bias, and the bias of my employees to provide solutions that are best for my users, not me.
Comments?
I decided to start off the new week with a bang and jump right into a topic that had been bothering me for a while now: 
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of 37 Signals, 
Some of the other entrepreneurs had some excellent blogs this week as well, so I went ahead and reblogged Phil Ricci’s 
But that’s not where the reblogging (are we allowed to call it RBing?) ends; Mr. Postling himself, David Lifson reblogged some interesting thoughts on Tumblr and @Replies. Naturally, I had to put in my two cents, so 
In this week’s humour, an animated office worker 
Last, but certainly not of lesser importance,
