diff --git a/files/helpers/regex.py b/files/helpers/regex.py
index 3e576d0c2..0065c36bc 100644
--- a/files/helpers/regex.py
+++ b/files/helpers/regex.py
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ poll_regex = re.compile("\s*\$\$([^\$\n]+)\$\$\s*", flags=re.A)
 bet_regex = re.compile("\s*\$\$\$([^\$\n]+)\$\$\$\s*", flags=re.A)
 choice_regex = re.compile("\s*&&([^\$\n]+)&&\s*", flags=re.A)
 
+html_comment_regex = re.compile("<!--.*-->", flags=re.A)
+
 title_regex = re.compile("[^\w ]", flags=re.A)
 
 based_regex = re.compile("based and (.{1,20}?)(-| )pilled", flags=re.I|re.A)
diff --git a/files/helpers/sanitize.py b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
index a77e54764..d4abcabcf 100644
--- a/files/helpers/sanitize.py
+++ b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ def sanitize_raw_title(sanitized):
 
 def sanitize_raw_body(sanitized, is_post):
 	if not sanitized: return ""
+	sanitized = html_comment_regex.sub('', sanitized)
 	sanitized = sanitized.replace('\u200e','').replace('\u200b','').replace("\ufeff", "").replace("\r\n", "\n")
 	sanitized = sanitized.strip()
 	return sanitized[:POST_BODY_LENGTH_LIMIT if is_post else COMMENT_BODY_LENGTH_LIMIT]