User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-50.53.139.17-20120807194306/@comment-3308937-20120807195214

While I appreciate the feedback I feel as though you don't have enough information on why we (I) did this. I guess given the information you have what you said is a valid view on the issue. The reason I did this experiment is because we've had numerous discussions on removing comments in the past that have never gotten through but they've become closer and closer as time goes on. I've always been a supporter of comments and have always felt that our small, and I do mean small, group of editors has a skewed view on the issue and that if we had more community feedback from the ones that the issue would affect the supportive vote would far outweigh the negative vote.

The issue with that though is that I have no proof, I have nothing visceral to show that the community would have an uproar if we just removed comments. This was the easiest and, imo, most effective way of having a way to demonstrate what you guys thought. Maybe my wording isn't prominent enough to show that this whole thing is an experiment and, as such, is completely temporary and for feedback purposes as a lot of people are acting and talking like this is how the wiki will be from now on.