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Does your site really need comments? ⇒

   6 November 2009, mid-morning

Joe Clark also discusses how you can make comments work. This point is very important: “You must have courage in your convictions and must have enough backbone to delete comments and ban users when necessary.” I do this on occasion. I also mock people who post stupid shit on my site. Also, Joe Clark seems to be at war with everyone.

This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.

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Comments

  1. I find it really helps to have a website that nobody knows about.

    by Matt on November 6 2009, 11:31 am   #

  2. You’d think – that’s what I thought. But every time I turn comments on I get spam out the wazoo. I’d rather have trolls than spam I think.

    by D on November 6 2009, 12:36 pm   #

  3. I should clarify: I use a pretty handy “CAPTCHA/website nobody knows about” combination.

    by Matt on November 6 2009, 3:07 pm   #

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