I am using a custom theme layer on LJ, so it might be written there, but I'm completely clueless about these kinds of things. It was 7 years ago when I made that custom theme layer, and that was only following the instructions of a tutorial that is now lost to the sands of time.

Uh...let's see, when I access my custom theme layer, this is what it says regarding the comment section:

< div class="entry">
$e.text """;

# Currents

var string currents ="";
$e->print_metadata();

# Comments

"""
< div class="clear"> < /div>
< div class="comments">""";
var Link edit;
var Link mem; var Link tags;
if ($p.view != "entry" or $p.view != "reply")
{
$edit = $e->get_link("edit_entry");
$mem = $e->get_link("mem_add");
$tags = $e->get_link("edit_tags");
"""< div class="leftlinks">""";
if (defined $edit )
{
print """< a href="$edit.url">$*text_edit< /a> | """;
}
print """< a href="$tags.url">edit tags< /a> | """;

print """< a href="$mem.url">$*text_memories< /a>""";
"< /div>";
if ($p.view != "entry" or $p.view != "reply")
{
$e.comments->print();
}
elseif ($e.comments.enabled)
{
$e.comments->print_postlink();
}
else
{
" ";
}
"""
< /div>
< /div>
< /div>