Here's the answer Jeff's referring to on why this doesn't happen currently:
Comments by OP on migrated question become "anonymous"

We may revisit hooking up comments in the future, but it's not a completely trivial problem (e.g. should reply to hook up as well? that's more info that needs carrying over), and won't/can't be retroactive. That being said, I do have an idea on how to take care of this in a not terribly expensive way, I'll throw it out to the team and see if it's worth it.

Here's the answer Jeff's referring to on why this doesn't happen currently:
Comments by OP on migrated question become "anonymous"

We may revisit hooking up comments in the future, but it's not a completely trivial problem (e.g. should reply to hook up as well? that's more info that needs carrying over), and won't/can't be retroactive. That being said, I do have an idea on how to take care of this in a not terribly expensive way, I'll throw it out to the team and see if it's worth it.

Here's the answer Jeff's referring to on why this doesn't happen currently:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/68434/comments-by-op-on-migrated-question-become-anonymous/92991#92991

We may revisit hooking up comments in the future, but it's not a completely trivial problem (e.g. should reply to hook up as well? that's more info that needs carrying over), and won't/can't be retroactive. That being said, I do have an idea on how to take care of this in a not terribly expensive way, I'll throw it out to the team and see if it's worth it.

Here's the answer Jeff's referring to on why this doesn't happen currently:
Comments by OP on migrated question become "anonymous"

We may revisit hooking up comments in the future, but it's not a completely trivial problem (e.g. should reply to hook up as well? that's more info that needs carrying over), and won't/can't be retroactive. That being said, I do have an idea on how to take care of this in a not terribly expensive way, I'll throw it out to the team and see if it's worth it.