User blog comment:Jens Ingels/Progress Notes 27/12/2012/@comment-5790482-20130213022005/@comment-3271569-20130213151354

Whe where forced to turn them off during the amount of spam and the incorrect of the the comment bar. There where also an lot of issus with the comment bars:
 * The data of the comments where listed in the core and therefor not even that wikia staff itself could acces these. So there was no option to refresh that data (with other words we couldn't delete all comments add ones to start over)
 * We couldn't handle the ammount of spam that was been posted together with the damage that most spammers did to all pages. In the result of that an lot of pages where locked but the comment section couldn't be locked like pages or turned off for one page. We first decide to use an javascript to block some of them but that process was to big to keep the wiki running on an decent speed.
 * Even with 4 active team members the team wasn't strong enouge to handle all spammers. Some members of the team already did overtime. It was war arround that time and is was fighting to keep our information save and correctly for the users. We didn't had time to recuit new players to the team since most active members where already on it. Secondly the bureaucrats add that time wheren't active enouge to select new recuites. Add some time I select an fell trusted users for expand the team but we never where able to get to that point.

Ones the new team is recuited we will reopen the discussion of the comments sections.