Ann Althouse has closed comments on her blog due to trolls, abuse and thread hijacking. It's a shame when someone has to do this but if the burden of moderation becomes greater than the comment value is there any point continuing? If any justification was needed beyond that she supplies... colinwalker.blog

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@colinwalker I’ve always felt that comments doesn’t belong on a blog but rather on here or mastodon or Twitter

@hjertnes It depends on whether they are comments about the blog post or in reply to it.

There was a period where I couldn’t be bothered with moderating spam so closed comments on WordPress and had “the conversation” happening at Medium - back when I was cross-posting. I realised that wasn’t really what I wanted so re-enabled comments directly on the blog. Now, most of my comments come from micro.blog but thanks to webmentions that’s not a distinction we need to make.

While a blogger can’t own or control the conversation about a post I definitely think that actual replies should be displayed in context (either by direct comments or webmentions) or what’s the point?

@colinwalker I get your perspective on this. I just don’t want that stuff on my blog 😅

@hjertnes Fairy nuff!