User blog comment:Yukishy1523/our community/@comment-2240864-20150915232830/@comment-24101790-20150916035521

We did, unfortunately people started commenting on the redirect instead and it got to the point that we had to issue warnings to ban users from continuing arguments and attacking each other over the quality of the story long after the original story was moved elsewhere. I believe our bot (That Other Machine) recently deleted that old discussion page as part of an attempt to clean up the site of discussion pages for stories that were already deleted and subsequently blanked the 1000 + comments.