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I turned off comments and allow people to contact me through Twitter or email. That seems to be such a high barrier to entry that the contact I do receive is a

I turned off comments and allow people to contact me through Twitter or email. That seems to be such a high barrier to entry that the contact I do receive is almost always because someone disagrees strongly or because they are very thankful for something they learned. In either case, it stops pointless crap like 'first'.

veddox 8y ago
Just out of interest, how active was your blog? (hits/day?) I don't have a commenting feature on my blog - partly because I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet, partly because I'm worried about potential spam. But I would like to get some feedback from my readers, so that's a bit of a conundrum...
- KajMagnus 8y ago
  I built a Disqus like commenting system, where you can configure manual review of [the first X posts a new person posts at your blog]. If they write say 5 make-sense interesting things, hopefully thereafter it's ok to auto approve their subsequent posts. — How does this affect (if at all) how you feel about spam? (Here it is: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments ) If you think someone might become a spammer, and is just posting "I like it" and "Wow great" comments to get past any first-comments manual reviews, then you can mark that user as a possible threat, and forever get notifieid about his/her posts (before they're made visible).
  - veddox 8y ago
    That looks good! However, I already had my sights set on Isso (https://posativ.org/isso/ https://posativ.org/isso/). My static site generator coleslaw (https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw) already offers a plugin for this, so it is a more natural choice...
    - KajMagnus 8y ago
      Coleslaw seems to have many nice features. Hadn't heard about it before
- PuffinBlue 8y ago
  I'm not 100% sure. Before I turned of analytics I was getting somewhere between around 16k-20k uniques per month. I don't know the accuracy on that, one was Google analytics, one as server based but filtering out the bots, so perhaps caught a few blocking the trackers (like I do TBH). That was nearly 7 months ago I guess? Looking in Webmaster search console it says I had 15.5k clicks and 237k impressions last 28 days (compared to 17k/297k 7 months ago), so maybe there are less visitors now. Not sure. I might turn the analytics back on at some point to find out!

veddox 8y ago

Just out of interest, how active was your blog? (hits/day?) I don't have a commenting feature on my blog - partly because I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet, partly because I'm worried about potential spam. But I would like to get some feedback from my readers, so that's a bit of a conundrum...

KajMagnus 8y ago
I built a Disqus like commenting system, where you can configure manual review of [the first X posts a new person posts at your blog]. If they write say 5 make-sense interesting things, hopefully thereafter it's ok to auto approve their subsequent posts. — How does this affect (if at all) how you feel about spam? (Here it is: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments ) If you think someone might become a spammer, and is just posting "I like it" and "Wow great" comments to get past any first-comments manual reviews, then you can mark that user as a possible threat, and forever get notifieid about his/her posts (before they're made visible).
- veddox 8y ago
  That looks good! However, I already had my sights set on Isso (https://posativ.org/isso/ https://posativ.org/isso/). My static site generator coleslaw (https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw) already offers a plugin for this, so it is a more natural choice...
  - KajMagnus 8y ago
    Coleslaw seems to have many nice features. Hadn't heard about it before
PuffinBlue 8y ago
I'm not 100% sure. Before I turned of analytics I was getting somewhere between around 16k-20k uniques per month. I don't know the accuracy on that, one was Google analytics, one as server based but filtering out the bots, so perhaps caught a few blocking the trackers (like I do TBH). That was nearly 7 months ago I guess? Looking in Webmaster search console it says I had 15.5k clicks and 237k impressions last 28 days (compared to 17k/297k 7 months ago), so maybe there are less visitors now. Not sure. I might turn the analytics back on at some point to find out!