Comments OFF

July 26, 2007 – 7:33 am

Some months back, I was pondering if I should turn my comments off. I read that it’s not a good sight to have ZERO comment on every blog post which is expected for a new blog. Heck even old blogs are like that too, you know?

But then I thought I would rather not since some people may want to contact me and since the day I started posting on this blog until today, I have not implemented the Contact Me form. Another thing which I want to implement is the email alert for commenters but it has been half a year already and I still have not gotten down to it. This is beyond procrastination already. I am aghast at myself!

But recently, spam comments have been getting out of hand. I know, I know, there are anti-spam plug-in and stuff but if I could delay this long for the above two tasks, I could also be dragging implementing anti-spam. I read that we could get the free key to Akismet by registering for a free wordpress.com blog but I would hate to do that for every blog that I am hosting. That would be so selfish. I hope there is a better, free way. There has got to be!

One of the tricks I read is that we could go back and turn of the comment for those particularly notorious posts. Yes, I do notice a handful of them are attracting spam comments like crazy. I wonder why!

After turning off comment for those posts, spam has stopped coming for those posts. Let’s see how this goes. Don’t worry though! These are all old posts which are already archived. You can still comment on new posts, if you want. I won’t bite!

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