If I want to see how people responded to my comments, I will look at my notifications. I was just reading comments to one news story and was about to "like" a comment when I got one of those stupid pop-ups. So instead of my click allowing me to "like" the other poster's comment as intended, the click hit the pop-up which took me to the other news story the pop-up referenced. i did not want to go there. Stop adding wasteful, useless, unnecessary "enhancements" to the comments forum. It only makes the experience worse.