On Blog Comments

I’ve realised recently that the comments form on my blog is almost meaningless. I generally just get the spam messages, which I, of course, decline without even thinking. I don’t know why the comment system should even be put in place anymore. The spam bots have ruined the website, the web, by the way. I don’t know what other mechanisms exist for writing or actually responding to blog posts online. There was a time when comments were the most fun. Writing long posts and discussing them with people, and their thoughts about those posts, was really wonderful. People used to visit and drop in short comments, saying either that they liked the post or that it was good to read. They would even, for that matter, just respond to a particular point that I was trying to make in the post. Most of the time, it was harmless. It was good. It was good to read those comments. It was good to see responses coming in on the post, which doesn’t happen anymore. It’s all spam bots trying to fill the…

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