[kayodelycaon]

I don't think it's that simple:

> I previously got a lot more comments about dates on posts, so removing dates from posts was a pretty large net win on the number of comments I get about dates.

When most articles of his posted to HN has people complaining about dates, instead of talking about the content, I'd hide the dates from my site too. I've been here a while and I find the majority of those comments to be low quality and are a net negative to everyone else's reading experience.