Can we please kill the hyphenator already?

[Tourist]

On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at 18:21:45 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> You could say snippets go in comments, but in the first place 
> people WILL misuse and abuse them for other things.  What are 
> you going to do?  Delete the questions?  Tell them to go to 
> D.learn?  Heaven forbid you ANSWER it!  That just encourages 
> them.  And what if it goes off-topic?  Is there ever a "right 
> time" to discuss array semantics in the std.string.chomp docs?  
> Doesn't matter; it'll happen.

I haven't seen questions in PHP's comments. Anyhow, those will 
probably be just downvoted.

> But even presuming we keep this a utopian column of code 
> spew... well, take a stroll through stackoverflow.  You know 
> what you find? A lot of commenters who don't have much clue on 
> the quality of their snippets.  Alas, "Thanks, this worked" and 
> up the vote goes, regardless of whether or not it's incredibly 
> fragile.  It's a "blind leading the blind" scenario. 
> (http://i.stack.imgur.com/ssRUr.gif)

The comments, of course, provide no guarantees, and are fully 
community driven.

> Disqus is the worst idea of all because Disqus is external 
> infrastructure under someone else's control.  When -- not "if" 
> -- Disqus dies (goes belly-up, or gets acquired, or otherwise 
> fails critically at existence), what do you suppose happens to 
> the people who used it everywhere?  Sure, they have an XML 
> export format.  I couldn't find their DTD posted anywhere, so 
> have fun making heads or tails of it.  Presuming you have the 
> time for exporting.  If you don't, well... you're boned, good 
> game, peace out?  Not acceptable.  Not even remotely.
>
> Also, a Javascript monstrosity.

I don't have strong feelings about Disqus, but it does it's job.
Anyhow, my point was about comments in general, not specifically 
about Disqus.

> Also, voting does not preclude the need for moderation.

IMO voting is a kind of (community driven) moderation.