[hk__2]

> As a writer, receiving feedback on my work is welcome and rare. This blog gets thousands of readers a month, and yet the amount of direct feedback I’ve received over all the years is a small fraction of that.

If you don’t have any comment box it’s hard to give you any feedback.

[Gualdrapo]

It can be worse: on a recent post here[0] the author says the contact page on his blog "does nothing but wastes spammers time and effort"[1]. Granted, he links to an email on said page, but why include a fake contact form[2] on your page then?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508069

[1] https://bruceediger.com/posts/honeypot-design/

[2] https://bruceediger.com/contact/

[ChoosesBarbecue]

What is the ideal approach for one? Assuming you don't want it to be a public one (to avoid moderation headaches), and you want to avoid automated spam, and your page is a static site, what is the ideal way to incorporate something like that?

[uukelele]

Maybe giscus

https://giscus.app/

It works for static sites, you just need to embed their script, and spam and moderation would be handled by GitHub.

[hk__2]

I have a static blog with a public comments system using Disqus; it’s just a JS snippet and it works great. I’ve seen people (ab)using GitHub issues too, or even use gists for blog posts.

[knorker]

Shaming people for not leaving comments anyway, I infer. /s

I put my email address on these things. All spammers already have it anyway. I get some feedback.

Or a normal web form with a captcha will create minimal spam. Certainly sufficient for someone not famous.

Or you can have a google form. Either with or without google verifying the senders email address.

[knorker]

You're not kidding. There's neither comment box nor email address. Is he expecting us to cyberstalk him to find if someone has doxxed him, just to give a thumbs up?

"Why is nobody calling to invite me to parties", says man who unplugged his phone.

Edit: Ok, I'm old. For younger people, pretend I said "turned off his phone".

[hoppyhoppy2]

There is a contact form on the Consulting / Hire Me page, but it takes a little poking around to find it.

[knorker]

Yeah. Should we just magically infer that he likes getting non-gig contacts on his explicitly gig contact form? The form is under "Get in Touch", and under an offer for a 15 minute call. I don't want that.

This reminds me of a friend of mine who in a B2B setting contacted a potential vendor by filling in a form, with his email and phone number as contact details. Instead of emailing or calling back, this vendor continued the conversation by tracking down my friend on LinkedIn and messaging him there! They already had the email and phone number from their form.

I'm also not super impressed by the consulting gig's "Johnny Holton" reference talking about Jake's "engineering excellence". A google search says Johnny Holton is an American hand egg player.

If I were a potential client going in cold then this would not fill me with confidence in his attention to detail.