Peregrine

After reading Dave Winer’s comments on blogging, in particular the parts where he discusses comments and their negative effects on a blog, I’ve decided to disable commenting in this blog. TrackBacks are still there.

Let’s see how this goes. If you would like to comment, you can’t post it on my site. Use your own blog and use a TrackBack to this article. Let me know what you think.

Personally, I’ve always preferred the idea of TrackBacks over comments. I just wasn’t quite sure how to explain (nor did I ever take the time to really think about) why I felt that way. So, thank you to Dave Winer for helping me quantify it.

Although I have configured this blog to not have the “Allow comments” option selected by default, existing posts which did have that option on should still permit comments. I will fix this by editing the DB directly. Hopefully, existing comments will still be visible once I do so.