I think Seth Godin's policy on "no comments" on his blog is a brilliant one. Why?

Simple - it promotes other bloggers and get's them to tell the story on their own site. (He does have Trackbacks enabled)

Really, it forces lazy bastards like me, who would have lobbed off a half-baked comment to actually come back to my blog, trackback to his, and compose my thoughts a bit more clearly.

Not to mention that it's great not having to deal with all that comment spam. I really think that MovableType is in the crapper. No new updates now for several months and comment spam is raging out of control with no end in sight, in spite of their "junk comment" tools in 3.2, I don't see any curb in comment spam activity.

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"Wow, what a great website, I'm glad I found it..."

While I don't have anything to say about your post I do have URLs for casinos, fireplace mantles, adult movies, etc...

My question... if I was to allow the spam comments... are people actually going to click a link from the comments on my blog to a site featuring 'lesbian anime?'

Actually, I know their secret is to put links all over the internet to inflate the ranking/popularity of their site.

Seth's no fool - he just doesn't want to deal with all of it.