When commenting form got fixed, I got another dozen or so comments, plus another SPAM wave along with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf you imagine for a moment all that coming upon you in the middle of the working week, you’ll see a problem.\u00a0 Who and how should respond to all that?<\/p>\n
I’ve spent half a day today talking with my hoster about the commenting form.\u00a0 Gladly it got fixed (the problem was session misconfiguration on the hosting company side).\u00a0 Then I needed some time to respond to all those emails. In the meantime I quickly reviewed and approved all comments in the moderation queue.\u00a0 That pretty much ate my day, together with some things I managed to slide in at work.<\/p>\n
Later in the evening, when my family went to sleep, I actually read all the comments and responded to a few.\u00a0 I also read through most comments at reddit.com .\u00a0 Can I reply to any of those?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 That’s out of my resources.\u00a0 I can’t handle all the traffic that came in.<\/strong><\/p>\nCan you?\u00a0 What will happen to your server if you’ll get digged or slashdotted?\u00a0 How can you moderate all the comments?\u00a0 How can you handle replies?\u00a0 What about comments at other places – blogs, forums, and social networks that brought you in the traffic?\u00a0 Do you have any moderators on standby?\u00a0 Do you have any monitoring setup (Google Alerts, coComment, etc) for remote discussions about your content?<\/p>\n
If you aren’t thinking about those things while promoting your blog, you are in for a big surprise…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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