Funny, I think most of the comments are shit and have been for ages. The starred commenters are all gigantic trolls or they legitimately believe in their gigantic biases, which is a scary thought of itself, and everyone else is short-sighted as the editors seem at first glance. Kotaku has been a "read between the lines" sort of place ever since I started reading a few years back and I don't think that's changed much. They purposefully dumb down and simplify things to make people upset or talkative in the name of hits but upon a closer look you can usually tell the other doesn't really believe that. The headlines being an obvious case in point as they're all hit baiting and rarely reflect the article. Which brings me back to the comments: How many people don't realize that last thing I just said and bitch about it.
Either way, I still find Kotaku interesting and have it alongside my other feeds, but it's certainly not my favorite. Hell, I think the only site I legitimately like out of all my feeds is The Verge. When you have a collection of writers, who are under the control of an editor, who is under the control of someone else, there's always go to be differences in quality and content. Which is why I read multiple sites and always will. Skip the trash, read what's interesting.