please tell me again how NOT to have the number of comments show

For some reason the number of comments show on one of my sites. I tried copying and pasting the section of a site’s “directions” for a site that works, but the problem site continues to show the number of posts at the top of pages.

I stopped allowing comments when I learned that they can contain malicious code and weird out your site. I don’t understand that at all, so I figured it was best to simply reply by email to people who write comments, and not include them on pages.

If you can explain to me how a comment can lead to a site being hacked, I’d greatly appreciate .

Anyway, I have a really nice comment that just came in and that I’d like to allow to appear, but I don’t want the numbers thing.

So, please would you tell me again how to NOT have the comment number appear at the top of a page.

(As an aside, my site is now getting 2,000 to 5,000 visits a day, which is entirely because I have a responsive site. Thank you so much for all your help in implementing Montezuma ??