User blog comment:Stuartfergie/Changing the current policy of deleting and editing comments/@comment-72.228.155.211-20130706024516/@comment-4802762-20130706025019

He removed the comments section because people kept complaining about him removing or altering their comments. There were three options: Let people post whatever they wanted, keep removing comments that went against his rules or remove the comment section as a whole. He chose the latter.