Oh my, are the comments terrible. It's like folks are posting nonsense, just to prove John Gruber right. :P
There's some weird synergies between this and the conversations about comment quality kicked up by Engadget temporary shutting down their comment system.
I'd imagine something less drastic, like disabling anonymous comments (and maybe even new registrations) for a few days would be a less disruptive solution.
I actually find the comments valuable - I noticed the issue earlier today when I tried to dig up the comments for an article I'd originally consumed via RSS. I made 3 or 4 attempts before I finally noticed the notice explaining the lack of comments.
I guess I'm going to be sticking with RSS for now - that can't be good for their impressions.
There's some weird synergies between this and the conversations about comment quality kicked up by Engadget temporary shutting down their comment system.