Discussion on your blog – comments

Comments are an important element for most blogs. While you are the only person who can write blog posts, the visitors to your blog can add comments to your posts. This can fuel a sense of community within a blog, allow people to give you feedback on your writing, and give your visitors a way to help or talk to other visitors. The only downside of commenting is that unscrupulous people will try to misuse your blog's ability to accept comments, and will try to post spam or advertisements on your blog instead of relevant comments. It's actually reported by Akismet, one of the leaders in spam fighting on WordPress blogs, that there are 7.5 million spam comments being processed every hour. What this means is simple--whether we like it or not, spam is an integral part of our online journey. Luckily, the WordPress community is always developing more ways of fixing the problem.