I happen to agree.If you are paying for the web site,you pay for the space those comments are taking up..My view is,if you agree with me,great..If not,who needs you..I won’t pay for the rantings of lunatics....That’s why youtube finally went commercial..With everybody using youtube ,Google was paying for everyone to use that space and they were losing money on it...
Actually, the comments themselves are considered web content.
Web content is what drives the website ratings.
If they decide to remove comments, they are only hurting themselves.