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> It's still better than Ars Technica.

"Disagree" is actually a suggested downvote reason at Ars, with predictable results. Then they published a number of articles that turned out to be perfect bait for flame wars, trolling, and upvote/downvote wars. Comments dripping with twitter-style vitriol and outrage. Engagement up, quality down.

Perhaps they did it on purpose to watch the trash fires burn and the ad impressions roll in, but it really destroyed the comment section SNR and stank the whole place up. I've mostly quit reading Ars except via HN.