Turning off Blog Comments (or: Welcome to Spam-me-not!)

The Editing Chainsaw

For every actual comment I get on this blog I get several thousand spam posts. Thanks to Akismet, Anti-Captcha, and Bad Behavior most of them never make it farther than the spam folder. But over the last year I’ve seen a massive spike in these failed attempts and the amount of actual comments has trailed off.

So I’m turning comments off and we’ll see how it goes. I’m still reachable by all the normal methods (email, Facebook, Google+, etc.), so I don’t think it will hurt. *pokes blog thoughtfully*

But at least I’m in good company

Martha Bechtel

My name is Martha Bechtel and I write fantasy and science fiction stories, paint small model horses silly colors, cast resin and plaster magnets, code random code (and Wordpress plugins)... Come on in and join in the fun!

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