Board Thread:Petitions/@comment-28083312-20171031113732/@comment-28083312-20171031120313

TheGoldenPatrik1 wrote: I think we should just remove all article comments and start over a-fresh, enforcing higher standards and urging staff members (particularly our now-sizeable group of Moderators) to patrol them regularly. But I would be fine with not doing them at all. That is effectively what is being proposed. Comments would be cleared, & if down the road we want to restore them, with a fresh start, we can do so. This can partially be considered a test run. Diepmon wrote: Well, since the Merge, concept namespace article comments have been practically cleared, but they've built up again on high-traffic pages since then. Is there any way to clear only mainspace article comments? Yes, we could exempt Concept Comments from the deletion if we had a good reason to do so, but I’ve checked over several of the Conception pages with Comments after people explained to me their concerns, but I have found that most those that built back up were not of quality, & so a purge may yet be necessary.