It's best to separate comment is free from the rest of the website, the rest of the website contains some of the best articles you'll see on the internet and covers a huge range. Comment is free is just increasingly obvious full of articles designed nothing more than to provoke a reaction and get people clicking, every week there's some ridiculous feminist article where everything and anything is a feminist issue - "Is how much milk you have in your tea a sign of the patriarchy?", that will guarantee a load of comments. This isn't too say nothing on comment is free is worth reading, there's still good opinion pieces there, but its certainly the worst part of the website often lowering itself to a daily mail-esque level of controversy. But I guess these click bait pages are the ones ensuring the website stays free, a necessary evil. You probably get 10x as many clicks on the controversial stuff, heck the daily mail pretty much makes it their business model.