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by star-techate 2850 days ago
> I don’t want you to have to sign up to Wordpress just to leave comments and communicate with me.

Then don't restrict your comments like that. WordPress pages don't gather 8000+ spam links because it's only capable of accepting wordpress users' comments.

WordPress is flexible enough and rich enough in plugins and themes that I wouldn't it an alternative to "building my own website", but rather as one technology you can use to do that.