Why do bloggers always hide their comments?

You might have noticed, I moved away from the very simple white design I had to something with a darker background. The other thing that I’ve done after seeing it done in a few other places is that I placed a lot of the extras like archives and searching at the bottom. I don’t think people really use that stuff all that often and more or less just come here to read my latest entries. With that in mind, just a little over half of the screen is dedicated to the entry while the other half is dedicated to users comments. I honestly have never seen anyone else with a weblog do this.

People have this habit of hiding comments. I don’t really get it. I can see hiding them at a certain point, and making them second to my thoughts, but comments are such an interactive part of a blog. If I didn’t have comments, this would simply be a private, much more life-oriented account of my life that would be useless on the web. So while I may not exactly have "invented" this idea that my users comments are really important to me, I’d like to at least acknowledge the fact that I’m dedicating quite a bit of space on each page to them and I have yet to see anything like this anywhere else. Maybe it looks visually cluttered. I don’t think so, but one could argue there’s just too much text. Personally though, I like it!

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