A lot of blogs allow comments. Back when blogging first started getting big, comments were all the rage. But then something inevitable happened. Comment spam. Since then people have been coming up with all kinds of ways to prevent comment spam from happening. These methods include black lists, all comments to be approved, text verifiers and more.

So with people always figuring out ways around the blocking of comments are they worth it? Some sites I would say yes. Other sites I would say no. Do I really want comments on this blog? No. Thus I don't have them. This blog is about me sharing my information with you about how to make your blog better. Not me and some other random person who wants to get into a flame war with me in comments explaining blogging to you.

Other sites where there is a community feel to it, comments are needed. Sites like digg would be worthless without comments. They are what make digg, digg. But they also have a great system in place for moderating all the comments.

The other issue, as hinted above, is do you want to really track all your comments? How involved do you get with your comments? I once read a blog where the comments were way more interesting than the actual posts. People would question and respond to the post within the comments and the discussion the followed was much better than that of the post.

But most people won't respond in their comments and if they do, it is never to the amount that people want them to. So you have to ask yourself if you want the hassle of managing your comments or not. If so, then go for it.