User blog comment:TheLunarEclipse/Article Comments/@comment-3027764-20120513202237

I personally don't think turning off the comments will help at all. When comments were first available for wikis, the wiki I was an active admin on at the time was hit by spammers. The wiki contributers would just spam the comments, and leave bashing comments. So, the comments were turned back off again. But, it didn't help, because it was spiting the regular users and the wiki contributers that didn't spam, because they were unable to talk about that pages, and the spammers just started vandalising the pages. All the users had to make blogs, just to have a place to talk about the things. The wiki feed was flooded with blogs and blog comments, and gave the spammers a place to bash the topics. So, really, all it did was replace one thing for exactly the same thing.

I actually like the article comments, because it's a good place to express opinions of things, and just talk about that subject. There are some people that abuse it, I agree, but there's always going to be people like that.