The trolling and spam on this blog has got completely out of hand in recent times, particularly over the last month, so to attempt to apply a brake I’ve temporarily changed the settings to only allow comments from people signed in to a Google account. The final straw has been a torrent of pornographic spam – you may not even have seen it because it’s mostly been on old posts, but it’s been happening more than a dozen times per day, and every comment needs to be deleted individually, which is a major chore.
I’ll try reversing the change in a few days to see if our friend has taken the hint. But even once things are back to normal, I would urge people to post more constructively than has often been the case of late. Cut down on the swearing and other inappropriate language. Don’t post defamatory claims about named individuals. And if you want to spend half your life posting ad hominem attacks on me, then by all means do so, but not in the comments section of my own blog.
