The comments situation here will continue as I just had a fun peek into my server stats. 22.09% of the requests to my site are to mt-comments.cgi. Oddly, the most bandwidth passes from my Politics category, but that’s another story.
Now, I don’t pretend to be in any way important to the community; this is a vanity site and a chance for me to screw around with a server without nuking one my own machines. Still, I was amazed at the traffic that spammers bring to this back-woods URL. In the last 80 days, 7691 hits were recorded to just mt-comments.cgi. That’s a little under 100 a day. That’s almost, well, 100 times more than the legit visitors I get. (Thanks to AAiOR for continuing to read, BTW; if you’re ever coming to Chelsea, drop me a line. I think I owe you a beer.)
Anyway, as humbling as a stats check was, I’m going to keep the comments open to registered users only. Sorry, but mainland China is a little too friendly to the scum of the internet.