Never read the comments.
Moving forward, I have decided to turn off the commenting function on RocketBomber. There are several reasons, the foremost of which is I don’t really care anymore.
Commenting does have a place on blogs – and for websites that operate as pseudo-forums (or actual forums and web-boards) or who, as part of their stated mission, attempt to “foster a community” of like-minded miscreants, well – you do kinda need that functionality. There are even tools and services out there (Disqus and Gravatar spring to mind) to make commenting either spam-resistant, more capable, or more useful to both commentariat and website alike.
None of that applies here. With just a couple of exceptions (shout out to BruceMcF, and JRBrown) the comments are just a place for very lost spammatons to drop inappropriate links.
As for reader engagement, I guess I have a twitter for that.
With only half-hearted apologies to readers who will miss the opportunity to comment, commenting here is now closed.
One thing I will miss is the ability to drop an aside or btw onto the end of an article — Though I suppose I will either figure out a different way to achieve the same effect,
or, of course, I’ll cheat and turn on the comments just for me and continue to deprive the rest of you.
commenting is disabled, not removed. ;P
Comment by Matt Blind — 6 March 2013, 12:52 #