A plea for more thoughtful comments

I will say that I don't comment very often but I haven't really come across anything that would put me off the site. That's likely because of how hard you guys have been working at moderation and handling things. That said I love the fact that comments happen here, for similar reasons that I like them on some other sites like Hacker News. On articles about topics like Linux Kernel development we frequently see comments and engagement from some kernel developers themselves that are talked about in the article that tends to give more context to events or decisions that happened and it's been wonderful to be able to see and get that kind of insight into things to understand why something happened. I see that sometimes on HN with technical topics like discussions around Nagle's algorithm when John Nagle himself chimes in on people's questions and I would hate to lose similar things here at LWN.