Comments

THREE WEEKS AGO, THIS IS WHAT I WROTE AND DIDN'T PUBLISH:

Let me make this plain and simple:

The more difficult you make it for me to comment on your blog, the less interested I am in commenting on your blog.

It doesn't mean I don't visit your blog; it means I'm getting so damned tired of having to possess an individual password for each and every blog. I have to "subscribe" to this site, to that site, to that host, to this host, I have to enter a Username for this site, then enter a Password, then confirm my password, then enter a different password to confirm that password, then enter the name of my cat, my proctologist, confirm my proctologist's appointment for next Thursday, genuflect towards Mecca, spin around three times and recite the dialogue to Pulp Fiction.

You know, it's just about reached threshold for me.

Maybe I'm massively different.

Maybe -- probably -- I'm simply incredibly unsophisticated.

I'll admit I'm a complete HTML idiot.

And, clearly a factor: I don't get nearly the hits that most of the blogs I read do. The bulk of my The Usual Suspects are much more popular than I am.

That said, I'm just pretty much not going to entertain any more limits and buffers and roadblocks placed in my way in terms of comment engines. It's just too tough and too long. I'm done. Moderating comments is one thing; it already makes me less likely to go back to see what your response might be. That's frustrating enough.

But when I have to jump through innumerable hoops and sign up for this and that, I'm just predominantly done.

I really like any number of your blogs. You wouldn't be in my blogroll otherwise.

But, the way your digital domain comments are set up, I concede: I mostly give up.

I took Word Verification off my stupid blog. Even that pissed me off, it was too much for me.

White flag.

BZ
IN RETROSPECT, I SUSPECT I WAS WAY TOO HARSH.

However, why is it that it is so damned difficult to make comments on blogs? Why should I be so frustrated? And why should I -- or the average reader -- jump through the various hoops and blockades purposely installed on today's blogs?

My blog is now the simplest in the Blogosphere (that I can determine) in which to comment. I clearly must be missing something. Am I unsophisticated? Am I a dupe? Can anyone explain this to me, please??

BZ