User blog comment:Arcaedia/Enabling Article Comments/@comment-3418306-20150901094910/@comment-26955746-20150901120949

Thanks for taking the time to respond to this. One of my aims is to make the wiki as user friendly as possible before Mankind Divided is released and I personally think the article comments contribute to that (when compared to talk pages). That's probably the reason they are enabled by default on all newly created Wikia's. As you said, not all of the comments are informative or helpful etc. but there have been ones that are and I think the extra convenience for users (particularly anons) to post these comments is worth the drawback of the not so great ones.

That is a decent idea if it could work. However, the new forums have actually already been enabled on the wiki (see bottom of this article), but the reason it doesn't make much of a difference is because people don't use the forum. If we get more people on the wiki closer to the time of Mankind Divided, that might change and maybe we can consider disabling the comments again if the forum is used like it is on TES Wiki. However I doubt it will be since in some ways the forum is more inconvenient than talk pages since you have to navigate to a completely different part of the wiki just to post something about the article you were browsing.