User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-1915726-20120808133710/@comment-77.105.204.121-20120808144732

Bandwidth was an argument in the mid-90s, and possibly early 2000 (for some countries); these days a few extra kb of text (which is what comments are) is hardly an issue, especially not one large enough that you need to disable comments for. In fact, going by the default settings for most browsers you wouldn't even need to send the images again (caching would take care of that, and as such your entire argument falls flat), and text isn't exactly something amazingly large to send -- what's the average/median size of a champion page on this wiki (text-wise, that is -- images will be cached)?

Additionally, wouldn't it be possible to implement auto-refresh and/or a manual refresh of the comment section only?

I for one am missing the comments. If I wanted to know what abilities a champion has I'd go to mobafire, solomid, lolpro or any other guide out there; this wiki was my place to go when I wanted to see how people actually played champions without reading a long guide that might be shit (for all I know); here I got "snapshots" of how people played champions instead, which is a lot more useful.

Also, re: Talk pages. Didn't even know we had them, don't like the sound of them. I don't need control of my own submitted messages (I would register, but that hasn't worked since forever, by the way), and I have no interest nor need to switch between tags.

Is this an actual issue or did someone invent it just to remove the comments? It's starting to sound like Riot's "We think Lux's ultimate is badly named -- nobody has complained about it, but we feel that that's how it is -- so we'll rename it"-move. The vast majority seem to want comments to stay. It's entirely up to you obviously, whether or not the comments stay, but going against the community is rarely a great idea. Especially if the majority of the community sees no problem in the comments and only a few admins do.