Why I Turned My Comments Off; And Why They’re Now Back On

I told you a couple of posts ago that I had turned off my commenting, and that I probably need to write a blog post on the subject.

First, an update: Commenting has been turned back on!! Yay!With restrictions. It’s not you! It’s the spammers!!

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As you know, I work the day job full time January through April. I was spending time every weekend deleting spam comments. I was getting over80,000 spam comments a month. It was taking manyminutes to delete these c...