Forum:Restrict commenting to registered users?

I would like to restrict commenting on articles to only registered users. Is there a way to do this? --Juicestain09 15:25, February 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes but it is restricted to only cases of extreme vandalism and spam. Otherwise there is no way to do so.--
 * There is a way to restrict only comments? I thought you could only restrict all editing to only registered users. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 8 Feb 2012 3:19 PM Pacific
 * The only way to prevent users from adding comments is to block them from creating pages in general since creating a comment technically equates to creating a new page. Godisme is also correct in saying that we prefer this be reserved for extreme measures. --daNASCAT http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 04:45, February 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok well that makes sense then. So how would I go about restricting editing/creating a page to only registered users? --Juicestain09 19:39, February 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * As Danascat said above, it is reserved for extreme cases. Unless your wiki is being hit by anonymous spammers and vandals all the time to the point that it is too much to handle on a local level, it will not be done.--
 * So I have to keep going through each page and deleting all the useless or offensive comments? Is there any other way to try to keep these kinds of comments to a minimum? --Juicestain09 09:00, February 11, 2012 (UTC)

Turning article comments off and using talk pages helps. -- Light Daxter -  Talk  09:52, February 11, 2012 (UTC)