On teh imageboards, a comment is optional and always was. Complaining about it just indicates ur n00bness - not to imageboards or Japanese imageboards (although possibly those too), but to Heyuri specifically

Imageboards are for images, and text is secondary. Lounge or Strange World are probably better fits if you're looking for discussion ("clever and insightful posts" not guaranteed!)

>Also heyuri is it's own thing and shouldn't look up to other BBSs just because their japanese.
Part of Heyuri's "own thing" is taking more inspiration than most from the Japanese web of past and present, removing the layer of crust that most Western imageboards are caked in