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when you turn off comments for individual posts, the nasty “comments off” text is shown, giving everyone the impression that you’re a antisocial ogre. then they get mad.

also, when you google for help on how to remove this “comments off” you get smart alecky answers on how to entirely remove the option of commenting from your blog. leaving your millions of fans without a voice (or trolls without any dinner).

so, intermediate users can head down to your server and edit the file in wordpress root > wp-includes > comment-template.php

find and delete bolded text as follows:

$more = ‘% Comments’, $css_class = ”, $none = ‘Comments Off‘ )

if you don’t believe me, i got it from the codex

Line 720 of wp-icludes/comment-template.php has the words ‘Comments Off’ as the value of the variable $none (in the comments_popup_link function)