I've only ever turned off the comments once on Medium. And while most were leaning towards debate, there were a fair few that got personal. As the article went viral, these comments were growing and every morning I would have a new email detailing my stupidity in faith and why I'm a narcissistic a-hole. I decided, reasonably, that I no longer wanted to wake up angry and defend my position to people that didn't want to hear my point of view.