We’re moving to San Francisco this summer – in late June 2010. When and why are you moving to San Francisco? Getting rid of comments has been regrettable, but they don’t scale, and it has brought peace to my life.Ģ. People can still give me feedback via Twitter, and if I don’t always respond I do listen. Trust me, I’ve done a lot of research, and when spammers are motivated, they’ll find a way through for a site with this kind of traffic. Even things like Askimet (and numerous other such filters) and CAPTCHA let a lot of spam through. Yes, I’ve tried several different software solutions for comment spam, and they don’t really solve the problem of humans leaving comment spam. And the tiny minority of legitimate comments were mostly bloggers trying to get noticed - not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I just don’t want to spend my life moderating spam for this reason alone. Seriously, it took up a lot of my time - time I wanted to spend creating, or with my family. So why did I turn off comments? There was too much comment spam, resulting in huge headaches for me. I learned (and still learn) a lot from my readers. I love hearing from readers, and it was my opinion that the comments often held better tips than the posts themselves. This has been the most difficult decision I’ve made since starting Zen Habits, as I truly loved comments here. Why did you turn off comments on Zen Habits? Of course, there’s a lot more about me and this site on the About page, and I’d always love it if you checked out the Books page.ġ. I get asked a lot of questions, many of them repeatedly, and I figured instead of answering them all over and over, I’d compile my answers for everyone here.
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