Engadget is a great site. I get the RSS feed plunked into Outlook, so I read most of what comes down the wire. While the articles are usually pretty good, the commenters are the best. Flame wars, comment trolls, the whole deal - it's the whole package. For a long time, it was a simple uprank\downrank comment system. Then they changed things, and introduced a new, slick interface (that didn't work with IE8). Shortly thereafter, they decided to go to Disqus (which just happens to be what I use here - too much spam).
Seems they customized the disqus system, which is great - although they left one part out. Upranking is still a part of the new system, but to many people's chagrin, the ability to 'downrank a comment into oblivion' has disappeared. People were upset - in fact, I think the most-read comments were the ones trapped in the oblivion-purgatory-hell.
Today, for whatever reason, a single article showed up with the old commenting system...needless to say, mutiny ensued:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/20/simple-hack-turns-the-magic-trackpad-into-a-usb-powered-affair/
