Site Comments on Hiatus

As of November 11, 2026, the comments on disquiet.com have been turned off entirely. No past comments are on view and no new ones can be added. The interface module for comments, long a part of this site’s various webpage templates, has been removed. The site is now, in other words, absent of reader comments. In recent months, the comments on this website have taken a noticeable, unfortunate, and largely automated turn. Spam has always been a problem, but the problem has become too much of a problem. For many years, the relentless but also familiar mode of spam was manageable, like fruit flies or dust. Those old-school rote messages routinely bypassed the public site as well as my content management dashboard, and went straight into a digital trash bin filled to the brim with get-rich-quick schemes, seedy romantic inquiries, and multilingual gibberish, among other categories. The main downside for years was the occasion when the arrival of an excess of spam comments amounted to a…

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