User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-67.49.148.81-20120808212718/@comment-50.53.139.17-20120808224127

"To sum things up, the wiki articles would all be information about the topic youre looking at. That is the point of the wiki, an information source does not need a comments section."

Wrong. Completely and totally wrong.

Did you know Wikipedia has a comments page on EVERY single one of its entries? You probably didn't. Most people who oppose the comments don't seem to be aware of that.

Do you know why it does? So that they can discuss the article and come to a consensus as to its presentation; to ask questions that are not referenced in the article; to bring up things that may potentially be important to the article; etc.

You clearly have no idea what "information" is. Information is not defined by what an authority deems necessary for you to hear, information is whatever you choose to glean from whatever source you deem appropriate on a personal level. The reason you come to a site like this is not simply to reference statistics because if it were, no one would have any reason to choose this site over numerous others. People come here because the information is from both an authority AND from everyone else.

I don't like being told what information is true and what is not. I will decide that on my own. I don't need to have my reality filtered for me - that happens more than enough in everyone's daily lives, I can assure you.