Two questions.  First, I'm using MTEntryIfCommentsOpen to turn off my comment form when I disallow comments.  I would like also display a note that comments are closed.  Something like "This discussion has been closed"  There isn't an MTEntryIfCommentsClosed tag, so how can this be done?  It looks like Mark Pilgrim is doing something like this.

Second question(s): how does disabling comments affect TrackBacks?  Can TrackBacks still be left if comments are disabled?  Does anyone know how SimpleComments handles this?

Thank you.

Trackbacks and Comments are two separate things, so closing Comments shouldn't affect Trackbacks. Don't know how SimpleComments handles it.