[rdmckenzie]

I have to chime in and agree with this approach. When I built my blog, one of my "must-have" features was a comment system free of 3rd parties such as Reddit and FB. After some soul-searching and an honest look at my traffic logs I decided that as the primary purpose of my website is to serve as a resume and archive that anyone who wished to comment could simply email me and that lacking an embedded comment system

- Freed me from having to monitor any conversation and its contents

- Helped disguise how low-traffic the blog is (nothing says low traffic more than a single comment)

- As the Svbtle guys point out, most comments are relatively uninformed and tend to add little. There are exceptions such as HN and the StackOverflow family where intelligent(ish) discourse is the norm but the internet at large is wild and untamed.

- Were I to run my own comment structure I would feel obligated to provide security the guarantee that there are no XSS or other code injection vulnerabilities stemming from user-submitted text.

Consequently my blog has no commenting functionality.