Thread:Cinnabar The Evil Gem Chemist 55555555555555555550/@comment-4189499-20130920123001/@comment-4189499-20130921132009

Being dated and being archived is not the same thing. Archived is more of a pushed out of the way to allow new messages to come to the top kin of thing. See my DWA talk page. Notice how there is a little thing at the top called an archive? It stores all my old talk page messages to allow space for my new messages. That's the point if an archive. Just having the comments sitting there isn't the same as having them archived. If you use talk pages instead of article comments, you can use archives such as that to store old comments, meaning you can remove the clutter without removing the messages completely.