Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20180512120056/@comment-1998339-20180523231334

Sorry to you both for the wall of text & the notifications. I figured I should offer a final response before we conclude this discussion.

I, personally, don't recall article talk page messages ever being deleted for the reasons listed... I was guilty of removing the odd gibberish or spam comment from my articles' talk pages. None of the policy-obsessed maniacs administrators ever protested. I assumed that since I "owned" the article & had the right to moderate user edits, I also possessed the same right to the subpages & talk page. I have vague recollections of my 2010 era peers (Corusant, TyphussJediVader, Joe, etc) doing the same, but I have no memory of specific instances to use as proof.

It seems to me like you're more interested in no comments than not this one. This strikes at the heart of the issue. In short, I don't see the benefits of the article comments feature. Why are talk pages insufficient? There's a reason big wikis like Wookieepedia & the Halo wiki disable comments & stick with talk pages. Talk pages are easier for everyone (not just admins) to police for spam & gibberish content. They exist off the main page & reduce clutter. They maintain a log in the page history of each comment's addition. They make reading much easier thanks to a more flexible formatting system. I don't see what benefits the comments feature offers that makes it a more desirable alternative to the talk page.

Nobody ever really needs to look at them... True but you can't help it if you scroll down the length of the page. Wikia's codebase the comments section once the user passes a certain threshold. This makes it impossible for readers to scroll to the end without activating the comment loading.

Do you think that's something you can work with? All in all, yes. It's not a big deal. It's just a little change I dislike. Don't take any of this personally. This is not me calling into question your judgment. Of all the people I knew back during the height of my activity here, I respected you & Solus the most! (: I am just averse to progress for progress's sake especially when I don't see ample justification for the use of a new feature over an old one.