We have been dealing with a lot of comment spam here at AVC over the last few weeks.
Most of it is “guest commenting” where the spam is being posted by an account that is not registered to Disqus (which hosts the AVC comments).
So I am trying something new and different in the hopes that we can dramatically reduce comment spam.
We are suspending the guest commenting feature on AVC. This may be temporary or it may be permanent.
I hope and expect that regular commenters who are registered with Disqus will not be impacted.
I realize this may reduce the number of comments by people who are new to AVC. It may also reduce the total number of comments and the opportunity for new voices to come and participate. None of this is good in my view.
But I want the AVC comments to be a “clean and well lit” place and I also want the maintenance of this blog to be minimal. So that’s why I’m doing this. We will see how it goes.
