Re: How about improving comments?
>The only comments system I can think of that's even more idiotic ...
has to be 'Most popular' first, the default on e.g. CBC.ca; in case people weren't already sufficiently sheep-like, here's a mechanism to expose site users to 'popular' thought(s)--which they can reflexively 'like' with barely so much as a twitch, reinforcing the lop-sided-ness of such perspective on the given topic. Unthinking, yet insidious, design.
Relative to anticipated changes to the site: "It is always appropriate to use the abbr element for any abbreviation, including acronyms and initialisms." (Tried this in this post, but it seems not to have taken.) Such use will reduce the number of head-scratchers like "SFTW", "CVE", and so on, and--for such use within articles--make IT a bit more accessible to readers at the margin, where growth occurs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
