Yes, I have decided to disable comments on this blog. I am also trying to disable trackbacks. The aspiration behind enabling trackbacks and comments were an admirable one. But however, it has been brutally slaughtered by spam and spammers. The sheer horror of ping after ping pushing mother/son incest and bestiality links have dampened my feelings about blogging being an excellent communication tool. As Tom Coates puts it :
Trackback is dead : It has been killed by the exploitation of human beings quite prepared to desecrate the work of tens of thousands of people in order that they should scrabble together a few coins. It has been killed by the experience of an inbox overwhelmed by the automated rape of our creative endeavours.RIGHT SAID Tom, I am following your footsteps and disabling Comments and Trackbacks here too...In a way it should have been predictable from the beginning we should probably all have spotted that functionality that allows individuals to place links on other people's sites could be exploited by spammers. Some people did spot these problems, but even they had no sense of the scale. Their responses were at best muted. But now I think we have to accept that the evidence is in. The situation is clear and it is not good. We're engaged in an arms race with the worst kind of people, an arms race that has raged across other communications media and which we show no sign of winning. For me, the negative experience of dealing with trackbacks has long-since overwhelmed the benefits it brings.
Of course the problem isn't restricted to Trackbacks. The systems we're using to manage comments on our sites are probably under even more strain from spammers. The only reason I'm prepared to put up with this in the short term is because the comments seem to be more useful to more people at the moment. But I'm clear in my mind ~ we're rapidly approaching a crisis here as well, and it is likely to be one that ends in the abandonment of comment systems as well.
Tom's not the only one who believes in no comments and no trackbacks, Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan, Jonathan Schwartz, Mike Chambers, & BoingBoing to name some of the most widely read blogs, don’t have comments enabled either. But HEY !! Youre' always welcome to email me directly.
PS: Could someone show me how to turn off Trackbacks in RollerWebLogger ?
UPDATE : I have reset my blog settings to enable me to moderate my comments more efficiently. However Comments would be enabled only for a period of 30 days from the posting date of each blog entry. After the initial elapsed time of 30 days from the post, comments would automatically be disabled and I'd communicate via email. Hopefully with this approach, I would still have a 2 way conversation going rather than a egoistic one way dialogue.
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