I've turned on comments. Should be interesting to see if anyone is reading this. Funny thing, the day I checked this blog after a couple months of letting it sit, it had quite a bit a traffic (my standards are low, btw) and I was surprised. Since I've started posting again, it's dropped considerably. haha. Anyway, I'm sure it's 99% bot traffic anyway, search engines crawling and little link-maker programs running around trying to slip in a solicitation. My number 1 reason for not wanting comments enabled is that spam. This interface Tripod has is pretty slow an no fun to use. I know I should have just built my own but at the time I was building other experimental websites and didn't have the time, now that I'm married I really, really don't have the time. I also generally liked the default format tripod had. Unfortunately, they've "upgraded" and it's slower than ever. So we'll see what kind of work the comments turn out to be. Going in and and changing code etc., that kind of work isn't too bad. But waiting for an interface to load, canceling and starting over just to manage content is a real pain. Heck, for all I know the bots may not even be interested in posting on my blog.
The number 2 reason why I didn't want comments is that I originally wanted it more content oriented than day-to-day random thoughts, somewhere between a blog and a website. And if I see a mistake then I'd correct it. But if comments are enabled, and someone calls you on a mistake, and then later all of a sudden it's corrected, it looks like you're cheating and not taking responsibility for being wrong. So I think I have a solution for that. First, it's moved closer to the blog side of the website/blog spectrum so I won't worry about it as much. Second, most of the errors that *I* catch are within the first couple times of reading over it after posting, and in that stage, there are usually lots of formatting errors (thanks tripod) too. My time to post and make corrections and so on is limited so my plan is to put "to be revised" on a new post. Until that changes to "revised" I will feel free to change anything I want in that post without special comments. And then afterwards, if there is a major error that I find or someone else points out, I'll leave it and make the correction in the comments.
