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Originally Posted by rlamego

Derek Powazek of Fray.org fame wrote a book called Design for Community. There's a chapter called "Bury the post button" where he describes how comments got a gazillion times better after he put the post button in the last page of the story.
He's take is: the more clicks it takes, the better the posts will be. The distance puts away readers that are not really interested or engaged in the content. I've applied this "philosophy" in several sites with remarkable results.

Comments are easy, articles are not!

What a fantastic (and logical) view on the comments issue! I think many webmasters/board owners have a mixed feeling about comments: on the one hand it brings life to the site, while on the other hand it takes away the focus of the article when the quality of comments look like slow chatting.

So putting the 'place comment' on the last page of an article is a great first step. Perhaps optional?