Comment Form Change

You may have noticed a slight change to the comments section.

With apologies to those of you who comment anonymously, I’ve had no choice but to switch to a more conventional registration system.  Why?  Spambots of course – trust me, you’ve seen only the tip of the iceberg with these spam comments.  It’s become a flood, intolerable, and as my only other option was to use word verification – and I despise word verification – this was the only alternative.

I simply don’t have the time or patience to deal with the triple-digit spam comments I’m getting every day now, many of which slip through Blogger’s spam filter and end up on the site, forcing me to delete them manually.  I may try opening it up again experimentally in a few weeks, to see if perhaps the change has fooled the spammers into spamming elsewhere, but I doubt that would work for long.  As the sign on my office back in the States said, “It is what it is”.  Thanks for understanding.