@docholladay
I would have thought Authors were also considered to be Readers. Most writers do a lot of reading I think.
Yeah, that's assumed, but I was confused since authors were already informed about how to activate and deactivate the comments, so I wanted to be sure we were both discussing the same thing.
Common sense dictates he WAS referring to readers, but I just wanted to double check.
@Lazeez
After the first few requests, I moved the comments below everything so that the useful links don't fall below them. But it wasn't enough, I kept getting requests to allow readers to hide all comments altogether.
In one story (on SOL) I've got 30 comments, so yeah, it can be excessive if you run across that many comments every time you read a new chapter. (You may want to consider a 'only show new comments after they've already been viewed' option instead.) While readers may tire of seeing the old comments repeated endlessly, that doesn't necessarily mean they're uninterested in ALL comments.
By the way, that's not a demand, just a suggestion for you to consider. If it's difficult, simply turning off the comments for the story is a decent alternative. If necessary, readers could always turn it back on once the story is finished and they're reading the final chapter.