Agaric wants to disable comments for nodes, en masse, retroactively
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Description
disable comments for all nodes of a content type (meaning existing nodes)
This guy wanted it for Drupal 4.6...
http://drupal.org/node/161880
These folks only wanted it for specific nodes, which of course is built in:
http://drupal.org/node/87495
Long story short, there does not seem to be much demand for the ability to retroactively disable comments for a large number of nodes.
I'm sure there's some people who wanted and probably created the ability to turn off comments automatically after a certain time? That's a common feature on forum software and a common feature request, that I tend to disagree with -- just use good captcha, and a way to direct people to related content that is newer, instead of taking away the ability to revive a year-old conversation if that's the bes thing to do -- so maybe I have to do some searching.
It should be easy enough to implement in Drupal 5, if anyone has any interest in funding it...
Slightly related:
http://www.whatwoulddrupaldo.org/a-modest-proposal-node-attributes
Disable - drupal disable comments for a bunch of nodes at once
It should be done through the admin node listing functionality.