Blog Comments

I like to read other blogs besides my sidebar favorites. Not the ones that are really popular but the ones that are just little people like me that like to write and hope that someone will read it and find it worthy of a little discussion. Since a comment to me is like a pet is to my dog Harriet, I usually try and comment on other people's even if sometimes I disagree. Sometimes I will read their past entries and there are months that have gone by with no comments, but they still have all these roadblocks. I just cannot believe that so many people are so inundated with spam that you have to go through that horrible verification process of smashed together letters. I took it off long time ago, and honestly I don't get spam and if I did, it is so simple to delete. The only thing worse is the comment moderation where the blogger has to approve of what you say. Why all the protection when people are writing under made up identities anyway? What word would you find so offensive that others would be ruined forever so you have to check it like a teacher before you let people see it? Who is so frightened of an opposing opinion that they have to squash it? End of rant.