Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10777624-20131224063252/@comment-24321528-20131224154941

I know this is a little late, but congrats Etahn!

And this situation sounds a lot like the youtube situation when they changed from free response with an account to having a google plus account. It really was horrible, and the spam was beyond anything you could imagine (I mean, no word limit? posting links that can go anywhere? I wonder what youtube was thinking at the time...) In the end, many youtubers disabled comments for a while.

But I digress, if the wiki is having problems with commments, then they probably should turn off comments for a whole week or so. Maybe the shock of not having comments will change people? (probably not since this is a rather free commenting section and anyone could really comment.)

If the comments do become a serious problem after removing them and putting them back, then maybe bunni is right, the commnets will have to be moved to a different forum or thread, like tcg or reddit (maybe something of the sort).

Now I'm definetely against removing the comments section completely, and I do hope that that removing comments on a specific article Etahn talked about will help with the comments, but if things become out of hand, then redirecting comments to a forum would be better.

Hope this helps, if not, sorry.