What are the chances that someone viewing a decade-old article will just happen to be viewing it at the exact same time as someone else is viewing it AND at the exact same time that this other person is submitting a comment on it?
A higher chance than you think, especially with search engines which offer immense amounts of historical content. I believe if there was a comment system put in place which informed visitors of how many other people were on the same page with them, this may encourage readers to chat amongst each other in real-time and bring life back to webpages which were once "ghost towns".
