{"id":1981,"date":"2016-10-09T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2016-10-09T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:14:33","slug":"re-enabling-comments-i-hope-i-dont-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/2016\/10\/re-enabling-comments-i-hope-i-dont-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-enabling Blog Post Comments on Tekhead.it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0couple of years ago I got to the point where I felt I had no choice but to disable comments on the site,\u00a0purely because of the insane amount of comment spam I was seeing.<\/p>\n<p>It was a real shame to do so as it reduced the amount of interaction I had with readers, as well as the\u00a0amount of engagement, etc.<\/p>\n<p>With some trepidation, I have decided it is time to re-enable comments, starting with all of my <a href=\"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/2016\/07\/index-of-tekhead-it-blog-posts-on-amazon-aws\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent AWS posts<\/a>. Fingers crossed I don&#8217;t regret it and get inundated with spammers!<\/p>\n<p>For now, I will only be enabling comments for registered WordPress \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.gravatar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gravatar<\/a> users (although I am also testing Twitter and Facebook integration), and will monitor to see how things go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1982\" src=\"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/wp-uploads\/www.tekhead.org\/2016\/10\/spam-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Tekhead Spam Comments\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/wp-uploads\/www.tekhead.org\/2016\/10\/spam-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tekhead.it\/wp-uploads\/www.tekhead.org\/2016\/10\/spam-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tekhead.it\/wp-uploads\/www.tekhead.org\/2016\/10\/spam.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what do people think? Are comments on blog posts so 20th century, or a worthwhile re-addition to the site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0couple of years ago I got to the point where I felt I had no choice but to disable comments on the site,\u00a0purely because of the insane amount [..]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"Comments","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"It is time to re-enable comments on the tekhead.it blog. Read here to find out why, along with why I removed them in the first place.","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Blog Post: Re-enabling Blog Post Comments on Tekhead.it #Blogging #vExpert","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[953,699,674,205,952,219,954,35,955],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-2","tag-akismet","tag-aws","tag-blog","tag-blogging","tag-comments","tag-community","tag-engagement","tag-spam","tag-tekhead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/wp-uploads\/www.tekhead.org\/2016\/02\/logo150.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l3lU-vX","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}