Poll: The new HN comment system – agree, disagree, or wait and see?

For note, here's a chart I just made of the number of Hacker News comments made over the last 3 years: http://i.imgur.com/4FwglA8.png

The number of comments has been growing significantly; perhaps change won't be bad.

I think the community is just nervous, but I'm willing to give it a shot (as a sub 1000 karma-er). I do feel the heaviness of the new comment system though; and I understand the uneasiness of those commenting--kind of like swapping files in production.

I think it would be great to have some sort of "Beta HN" where whoever is taking over HN could try out all sorts of new features before they become adopted into the main HN site.

Remember when a chorus said hiding comment scores would be the end of HN?

I'd give it a few days. I want to see what happens in the comment thread of the next popular controversy.

Have you considered that bad content breeds bad discussion? Some subreddits have evolved to deal with content marketing shills, a plague on HN, by demanding submitters have no relationship to the content they submit.

I think this would go a long way to restoring a healthier commenting environment. I also think you should consider taking HN with you as you step back. YC are not appropriately positioned to deal with this problem because 1/2 the startups exploiting HN are YC and the other 1/2 are copying them.