Remove Required Comment Textarea?

Hi,

Sorry, it does not remove comment fields, It suppose to add extra fields with comments.

Thank you for the quick response, just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing anything.

This should do the trick…
1. Insert this into your functions.php

// add default comment
function rei_preprocess_comment($comment_data) {
    if ($comment_data['comment_content'] == '%dummy-text%') {
        $comment_data['comment_content'] = ''; // replace dummy text.
    }
    return $comment_data;
}
add_filter('preprocess_comment', 'rei_preprocess_comment');
function rei_wp_footer() {
    ?>
    <script>
    jQuery(function($){
        var comment = $('textarea#comment');
        comment.removeAttr('required'); // remove required attribute of textarea.
        $('#commentform').on('submit',function(){
            if (comment.val() == '') {
                comment.css('text-indent','-999px').val('%dummy-text%'); // change to dummy text.
            }
        });
    });
    </script>
    <?php
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'rei_wp_footer' );

2. Use css to hide comment box

Thanks for sharing.