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I maintain a static blog which is small-time enough, but I did want a comments section - essentially it's the only public way I have to interact with readers directly, since I'm not a fan of the whole social networking thing. Email works, of course, but some form of visible Q&A can be helpful to others too.

Back when I set it up, I couldn't find a ready-made solution that looked good enough, so I chose to roll my own (basically an email form plus a hack to extract the json comment data from the message and rebuild the site). Since I'm dealing with a low volume of feedback, I don't have an issue with moderating/approving each comment beforehand, and spam isn't a problem... but this article could sure be helpful if that ever changes.