I have set the blog to require registration before you can comment. Apologies. It’s an experiment to see if this will help me manage the egregious amounts of spam I’m getting (even with akismet’s help). If it doesn’t help I’ll turn it off again, but to give you some context, in 12 hours I received 17 pages of spam!
Please let me know if you’re trying to comment and being blocked either by registration or commenting.
Well, I guess that’s that. I went from a constant stream of spam comments, to silence. Or at least near silence — there were a couple of spam registrations, but they seem to have stopped too.