It depends on what you are doing. Imagine a blog about model steam trains, say 3.5" guage. It is not general interest.
Or local archaeology. Again, not general interest.
Or an artist and his/her work. Again not general interest.
But in all these scenarios there is benefit in it not being yet another Facebook group and having comments open for that specific community.
For spam there is good old recapthca and then the check to see if it is Eric Jones.
Some people are not popular and don't get a torrent of comments to filter.
It all depends on what you are doing.
With software you can't expect useful comments. Stack Overflow have got people covered. But with something like model steam engines where there is geographical scope and a particular demographic, comments make sense.
Or local archaeology. Again, not general interest.
Or an artist and his/her work. Again not general interest.
But in all these scenarios there is benefit in it not being yet another Facebook group and having comments open for that specific community.
For spam there is good old recapthca and then the check to see if it is Eric Jones.
Some people are not popular and don't get a torrent of comments to filter.
It all depends on what you are doing.
With software you can't expect useful comments. Stack Overflow have got people covered. But with something like model steam engines where there is geographical scope and a particular demographic, comments make sense.