Lots of people asking about the blog comment policy. I don’t have one. I was going to disable comments, and suggest people instead respond on Twitter, but some people thought comments could be useful for longer-form responses (and allegedly some people aren’t on Twitter). So I’ve enabled them for now, moderated for boring legal reasons, and will see how it goes. If the comments section becomes a ghost town I’ll remove it.
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2 responses to “Blog comment policy”
What about if it becomes a troll-town? Or full of arguing people? Could you remove it in those cases too, please?
Inexplicable lack of spammers and trolls so far.