Ah. I needed that.
I’m not quite ready to return yet; I said you’d be able to comment again in May, and now it’s May, and soon you’ll be able to comment, but not now. I want to be clear with this: regardless of the current trend, I don’t want my weblog to turn into a closed room.
People may occasionally be rude or misguided, you may be besieged by spamming scum and comments may be a poor way of creating a sustained conversation. But the right way to attack that isn’t to close down comments, it’s to realize what you’re working with and make adjustments accordingly.
Even if closing down comments makes sense to you, it is a resounding fingers-in-ears, “LALALALALA I’M NOT LISTENING” to some of us who have commented in the past. I won’t be making this mistake, and I’ll appreciate the irony in you not being able - due to technical difficulties, as it were - to comment on this post right now.