My blog doesn’t get much traffic these days, and the traffic it does receive is largely from crawlers (especially language model crawlers) or from spam bots. Consequently, the entirety of all comments I have received on my blog this year with the exception of one have been spam.

I have Akismet enabled on this blog, yet it isn’t catching what’s coming through to the tune of 5-10 messages a day, many of which are absolutely appalling, disgusting, and explicit. I don’t have the time to moderate all the absolute garbage that’s coming through, so the easiest solution is simply to turn comments off.

I rarely receive any comments of interest on my blog (I haven’t for years), so there isn’t much point to using blogs as a starter point for conversations any more—that almost always occurs on social media.

It’s unfortunate, but this is honestly the best option since I don’t make regular posts. I also have zero interest in reading some of the absolutely abhorrent crap contained in the spam my blog is receiving—even by accident.

I have retained all comments to date that have been made by people I know or people I can validate as most likely human. Every other comment has otherwise been deleted and comments disabled.