Okay, so now you can comment, yay!

You do have to be TypeKey-registered, though. I realize this is a small hassle, but seriously, the hassle is small, compared to my having to sort through all the comments to take out the porn and the Viagra.

Now, for those of you concerned about giving up your email address. You have the option, when you use TypeKey, of not sending your email address to the site operator (that would be me). I have not set the preferences to require that you give out your email. So you do have to give it to TypeKey to set up your account, but if you un-check the box for sending your email to the site author along with your post, your email won't display, and nobody will see it. (At least, that's the way it's working right now.) So your email address should remain private, if you un-check that box.

I wish we still lived under a freewheeling comment system, but Bob and his friend MelindaCohan were basically unrelenting, and clearly had set things up so that they could automatically post a comment to every . . . entry . . . on . . . this . . . site every time they got a new campaign going to advertise Viagra or whatever. So that just couldn't continue. I didn't have the ability to ban them, so now, they can't post at all.

You should only have to register for TypeKey once, and that registration will hold you for lots of other sites, including the new Hissyfit, just to name one.

My prediction is that commenting is actually going to become available on some sites that haven't allowed it in the past, as registration becomes possible and relatively unburdensome.