Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20180512120056/@comment-3528596-20180523192856

I, personally, don't recall article talk page messages ever being deleted for the reasons listed (nor, for that matter, user talk page messages which, sans a very few specific reasons, were always archived for preservation). That's especially true in the case of this comment which seems largely positive&mdash;at very worst it's a neutral opinion by a passing user. It seems to me like you're more interested in no comments than not this one.

While comments might not be your preference, I still think it's opening up a potentially large can of worms if you let every user decide what can and cannot stay on their pages. Ultimately, every deletion has to be by a member of the admin team, so that creates the potential for a lot of back and forth, or, potentially, deletion without double-checking what is being deleted and why. On the other hand, leaving the comments doesn't really hurt anyone.

I do understand how the comments you're describing&mdash;which again though, doesn't really match this particular comment&mdash;aren't great to look at on a page, but comments are all at the bottom of the article. Nobody ever really needs to look at them, and as long as you're using CSS that keeps you from seeing them, then you don't have to worry about the comments bothering you, and the current system of comments doesn't need to be changed.

I know that's not really the answer you're hoping for, but that's where I'm coming from right now. Do you think that's something you can work with?