I’ve seen a bit of discussion lately about moderating blog comments.
I don’t want to do it, but I have my comments set to moderated for one very simple reason.
I get a lot of spam comments.
I mean, a lot.
As in, I just deleted 50 before I started this post. I feel like I can better manage them if I can let them build up in the moderation queue, rather than worrying that they’re all over the blog already.
Also, this means I might very occasionally miss a real comment in all the junk, my apologies for that.
And it’s getting harder to quickly write things off as junk with a quick glance, too. I don’t know what the comment spammers are trying to accomplish but in between the random links I get things like this:
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Also, The Parrot God wants me to buy accutane. Yeah, I don’t even know.
So that’s why my comments are moderated for now. Maybe if it calms down I’ll start leaving them unmoderated again. Maybe.