User blog comment:Thomas Hozempa/What happened to the comments?/@comment-4495863-20111028230819/@comment-34326521-20111029195159

I'm not sure you understand how long that takes. At least twenty comments every day, most of which need to be deleted. We (admins) are not your cleanup crew. We had strict rules which the users decided not to follow. It was either disable the comments or ban most of the users for a long time.