This is intentional. If you know me from when I had “techcraft.tk” (my old tech blog), it was roughly around 2016-2018, but later I decided to change the domain. The point is, for each post, I saw many spam and irrelevant comments, which made me realise some people are so dumb. They’d be dropping comments about “crypto” or “pay me I’ll hack social accounts…so on..”
I used to think that it’s too normal in a public comment box. People are not taking accounts on any platform using their own ID, it’s random and hence there is no form of validation to determine anyone. Some others may be spreading toxic comments too.
At some point, I decided to disable the comment box on my blog. Did it affect a chance for people to share their opinion? No, I will not say that anymore. Take YT for example, people used to say anything, anyone can. But that is YT, and it’s “used to be that way”. Everyone knows it’s normal daily toxicity. But, i don’t want any such in my website.
Say, I’m writing a controversial blog criticizing my government in some ways. I can do that because I set my website’s rules. It’s not under anyone’s policy except mine. Assume I have a comment box enabled where anyone with a GitHub/Disqus account can comment and say anything. Surely, you don’t want to hear those toxic comments and deal with that. Of course there are very on-point and decent opinions as well, but filtering those out needs my validation.
The best way to get good feedback/opinions
You might have guessed by now, I’m suggesting ‘E-mail’. Say people used to read your/my blog. If they are sincere and want to reply or write feedback for real, they will write you E-mail saying “I read the blog, my opinion about it is…..so on”.
It’s important to note that the people who are not lazy, who don’t comment just for the sake of commenting, will be the ones who take the time to write an email and share their real opinion. So, i do value such opinions and i believe they really mean to say it since they took the time to write that. What you’ve just done is a level of spam filtration. You are now only seeing comments/opinions from people and not from bots.
With all that said, i hope you’ll share your opinions and feedback via my email [email protected] and I’m happy to have a discussion. With that said, I’m wishing you a great week ahead. Do your best!