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Editor's Note
Yo, here's the only reason for limiting the Commenting on most individual stories: The software we use makes it too time-consuming to set up. I want to publish "the news" in one (or, now, two) long post(s), rather than individual stories, and doing that one (two) long post, with Comments inside it, means I have to format each story a second time to get Comments threads going. For example, if there are four stories referenced in "More Things to Worry About on Tuesday," I'd not only have to publish Tuesday's entire post with links to all the stories, but I'd have to create four additional Comments posts (that readers would not see) just to open individual Comments threads. And I'd rather be reporting the news than formating a damn web page. Even Alex, our resident part-time geek (relevant quote: "I love the smell of html in the morning"), couldn't figure out how to avoid that step. I'm glad y'all like to Comment on the news, and I hope you'll continue to do it, but I have many more Readers than Commenters, and I'd rather devote the energy to putting more news in front of the Readers.