[kitsunesoba]

> A big drawback, and what killed many of the original forums, is spam management and maintenance.

It's also what's killed comment sections on a lot of blogs. Nobody wants to have to either periodically clean out spam or go through a queue and approve comments.

[loa_in_]

The second way is fine and not that distracting, just gets people reading the comments into the "they're filtered by the owner" mindset so there's that. Not that literally any social software can be