Whose stupid idea was it to remove comments from answers to mature questions?

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I have just noticed that a few days after a question has been posted then the ability to post answers and add comments is disabled. I have no problem with that; however, what I do find surprising is the fact that any comments against answers disappear at the same time.

I frequently add clarification comments against specific answers when I believe there is some ambiguity in the answer. For example, if someone asks "How do I find my IP address?" and gets an answer "Run the command 'ipconfig /all'." I might add the comment "This applies to the IP on a Windows computer. The public IP address will be different if you connect through a router."

Now the comment disappears after a few days. Why?

Son of T3 · Accepted Answer

Yahoo never tells you why they do things. If intentional, there were probably a couple of reasons.

1. Trolls were using comments for flame wars. Since few looked at old comments, they rarely got reported.
2. Spammers were using the comments for their posts.
3. They were seeing lots of violations coming from the comments. Just removing them saved a big headache.
4. Since the number of people that looked at old comments, that are real, was near zero, it also saves them bandwidth and prevents coding problems.

Anonymous · Answer

because i said so

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