Thanks for the reply, Overall, your comment is my assessment.
Yes, the comments were associated with a rather specious article several months ago which already prompted me to wonder why zh featured it - it was very juvenile in style. I wanted to see if others noticed. Those discussing said that this is the new quality since they changed hands, Whether that's mgmt or ownership, I don't know. That moved into a discussion on whether the lower quality and type of info was disinfo. Am interesting theory, considering the state stranglehold on msm and a lot of alt news.
I seemed to notice a subtle shift in quality after that, but it could just be me, tired of zh's 'imminent financial tsunami' focus of the past many years. I tink Joel Skousen is correct, that's not our pressing worry, it's nuclear war.