Board Thread:Administrator's noticeboard/@comment-4652200-20121130231836/@comment-1445357-20121231122548

I am a stern believer in the idea that a wiki with high quality information will attract readers naturally. If we have to rely on comments for readership, that's no better than a circus relying on their bearded lady.

For practical reasons, disabling comments will reenable talkspaces, not cause the wiki to freeze whenever we have to move a page because of the thousands of comments we move with them, disable the most frequent outlet of all the spambots we ban on the wiki, and the forums (which use overlaps with comments) may see more use.