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On a completely different note, after the NDIC site came back up after being down for five days, I was way behind on the data. I turned off the comment function because comments slow me down, and I needed time to catch up on all the NDIC data.
When NDIC went down for five days, it gave me a chance to think about the blog.
One out of ten comments, maybe one out of twenty comments, that come in are worth publishing. Fifteen out of 20 comments are "robotic" spam, not even written by a human. Just spam advertising some website, usually for payday loans or something along that line. Those comments obviously don't get posted.
I have to go through each comment individually; takes time.
Of the other five of twenty comments, three of them are from readers who really, really dislike Big Oil and gripe about the oil industry. Those I don't print either.
So, I get one or two comments out of 20 that are worth posting; takes a lot of time. And even those comments don't often add much to the blog.
When the NDIC site came back up, I had five days of data to go through and comments would delay getting caught up.
So, for now, I've left the comment function off. They're a lot of work for very little return.
So far, it's made my life a lot easier and I've been able to post a lot more than usual.