Board Thread:Administrator's noticeboard/@comment-9713132-20121012115558/@comment-33628828-20121014183345

We do have other options. The AbuseFilter extension could block out some words or phrases from being entered into comments at all, so we could prevent anything from excessive swearing to all-caps comments.

I really don't care myself as to what happens to article comments. If the contributing members of the project feel that they are bad, despite overwhelming evidence to show that they bring a large number of readers here and make it unique from other sites, fine.

I'll ask some staff people again about allowing user-only comments, but expect the same answer.