Makes sense, the people who are able to comment first would be the ones that haven’t actually read the article or just skimmed over it and just have a knee-jerk reaction to the title or something. Maybe a solution is to have not a per-user delay but a global delay, i.e. the comment section doesn’t open until some time after the article is published. That won’t keep anyone from commenting without reading and reflecting on it, obviously, but it might prevent the knee-jerks from dominating the early comments and limit their influence over the tone of the rest of the comment section.