If the comments aren't published automatically, but await your manual review, then why didn't you go with "comment by emailing me"? Was speed the motivation? (O

If the comments aren't published automatically, but await your manual review, then why didn't you go with "comment by emailing me"? Was speed the motivation? (Obviously sending mails is far from fast.) Or did you consider a textbox to be a "smoother" experience for your users? Or just for the fun of implementing the comment system?