[logfromblammo]

It is a Cargo Cult Code Convention.

Good code has documentation, therefore our bad code will become good by adding documentation. Truthful comments, such as the following, would likely get the writer fired and not improve the code one little bit.

/* This code block is a crufty, kludgy crock of dung. I have argued several times that it represents a morass of technical debt, security holes, and degraded performance, but I have so far been explicitly denied permission to fix anything in it. In addition, it is so tightly coupled to equally bad code that it is impossible to test easily. But now the good news. If you can stand to look at it, this code will pay your mortgage, and the mortgages of 20 other people, because your bosses have more money than brains. /

Instead of writing that, you get this.

/ Magic. Edit this code at your own peril. */