One Day With Chat-based Comments - Nice

Here’s a quick report on Day 1 with comments disabled - it works like a charm if I do say so myself. There’s two observations worth making.

First, the spammers are not having nearly as much impact on our server resources. Consider these numbers:

Now that’s a real savings if I ever saw one. Just think about how much crap I am not helping to share with the world.. ahh, refreshing.

The second observation is that quite a few people have gone into the chat room. I don’t know who most of them are, which is interesting. It’s the first time I am talking to people that are reading the site - aside from the hallways at blogging conferences. And the number of people is really interesting. It’s far more than would normally comment on a post.

Interersting indeed.