Why so many default disabled rules?

["Kurzawa, Kevin" <kkurzawa () co pinellas fl us>]

I am curious as to why the Snort rules ship with so many of them disabled/commented out by default.

It seems the default set is ~4,000. But if using the option to enable /all/ rules in Oinkmaster it comes out with 
~20,000. I get Registered User Release rules, not the Subscriber Release rules.

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