Why Comments are Disabled

Many, if not most, blogs are setup so that visitors can post comments. I’ve decided not to do that on this blog. The reasons for doing this are:

1. I don’t want to have to spend time dealing with comment spam.

2. I read Steve Pavlina’s article about shutting down comments, where he notes that only a small percentage of his readers bother to read comments, and an even smaller percentage ever post a comment. His reasoning that spending time and energy on moderating comments for a relatively small group is not the best use of either his time or energy. I agree, I would much rather see more of his excellent articles than have him deal with unruly commenters.

3. The main reason: it’s kind of embarrassing, but I often get addicted to and caught up in message boards and forums, especially when they don’t have email notifications when responses are posted. It’s taken me a long time to wean myself off of Usenet. I just know that I would get sucked into spending hours getting into stupid arguments with people, just to try to prove that I’m right and that they were idiots. That seems to be part of the Myers-Briggs INTP personality profile.

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