Don't Read the Comments
Lately I've found myself intentionally refraining from reading comments on as much as I can - Reddit, YouTube, even my beloved Hacker News. Not all the time, but it's a growing impulse.
I feel that comments on average are negative. They make me feel bad about the post, and they make me feel bad about people because I wonder why everyone is so negative.
Recently, I discovered BearBlog Discover which is a discovery feed for short form blogs. When I first discovered it, I tried to comment on a post and was surprised to see it has no comment functionality at all. If you want to respond to a post, you must write your own short-form blog post. I think it's really neat.
Don't read the comments. Write a post instead.