Comment on Comments
I have a bit of a dilemma. This is still a relatively young blog, and I’m not really sure how it is going to evolve. But I need to make a decision about the comments feature fairly soon.
You see, while I get a fair number of visitors daily, I get very few comments. Legitimate comments, that is. However, I do get more than my fair share of spam comments. Wordpress does a decent job detecting and quarantining the spam, but I still have to sift through them all and confirm their status as spam. Dealing with spam comments is graduating from nuisance to chore.
So I am considering disabling comments. Now there are some of you out there who will say that if I disable comments that means that I hate freedom and the spammers win. I say that depends on whether people will actually use the comments feature. Up to now, people seem to be more inclined to send an email than post a public comment, so it probably won’t be that big of a loss. But on the other-hand, the traffic to the site has been growing so maybe I should wait and see what happens.
I’m leaning towards keeping them enabled for a while longer because I love freedom, but I’m reserving the right to pull the plug at my leisure.
Let me know if you, gentle and wise reader, have a preference.
Personally I would leave the comments. Not because of the freedom but because it gives your readers an opportunity to interact. I can relate to the spam comments, I operate several blogs and there isn’t a day that goes by that I am not deleting 10-15 spam comments. Basically for every legitimate comment I recieve, in return I am deleting 10 spam comments. Although it can be a pain to sift through the spam comments trying to find that legit one….to me, it’s all worth it in the end.
By the way, nice blog!
ComicNews,
Thanks for the comment, feedback and advice! They are definitely appreciated.
I just read today about a software that requires posters to answer a simple question before commenting. Maybe it would solve your problem. Go to http://waldo.jaquith.org/ and look for his post “anti-spam measure”.
I moderate all my comments. I don’t get many (yet, hopefully more will come). I would leave comments enabled and implement moderation if it becomes a problem. Only if that fails would I kill them completely.
I also have VAIGRA for YER SMALL t00l. Just sayin’.
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