[development] One-to-one tables considered harmful

[Robert Douglass]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> I have been reading the posts and wondering what is so different about 
> a comment.  A comment is nothing more than content very much similar 
> to a node.  As content it has a specialized content type which at the 
> moment isn't visible to the administrator.  So, I think to myself that 
> perhaps a comment should be treated as a node and the comment table is 
> nothing more than a one to many relationship mapper.  I'll give this 
> some more thought toward D-7 I can see this idea as enhancing many 
> modules.

Please to check out the nodecomment module which does just what you 
describe: http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment