User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: December 4, 2012/@comment-970089-20121205215822

Rappy, Q for you. Have these changes had any effects to the way blog comments work? Previously if people had commented, but the commenting tick was removed later the comments would remain in a read only state - useful for when the content is useful, but the comments have had to be closed (say its an old blog, or a minority of users are spamming the blog and we need to clean it up). Now when the commenting tag is removed, all comments go. is there any way to change that? Ta.