A couple of years ago I got to the point where I felt I had no choice but to disable comments on the site, purely because of the insane amount of comment spam I was seeing.
It was a real shame to do so as it reduced the amount of interaction I had with readers, as well as the amount of engagement, etc.
With some trepidation, I have decided it is time to re-enable comments, starting with all of my recent AWS posts. Fingers crossed I don’t regret it and get inundated with spammers!
For now, I will only be enabling comments for registered WordPress / Gravatar users (although I am also testing Twitter and Facebook integration), and will monitor to see how things go.
So what do people think? Are comments on blog posts so 20th century, or a worthwhile re-addition to the site?
Use Disqus. Job done.
Thanks for the tip Chris! Do you have to manage it much in terms of false positives etc, or is it pretty much set and forget?
First comment!
Sadly Chris beat you to it Tom, I just hadn’t approved his comment yet… 🙂