# of comments trending down

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  drofwarcsyp · Member · Jan 5, 2009 at 10:31 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m curious about the downward trend in the number of comments at WordPress.com sites (see here: http://wordpress.com/stats/posting/).

  Could anybody explain the reason for this? Perhaps more spam comments are being caught (and thus are not being counted as comments).

  Regards,

  drofwarc

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  ivk2 · Member · Jan 5, 2009 at 10:46 pm

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  People are building different kind of sites – more as websites/information sources as discussions/blogs
  Like most of mine in fact

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  drofwarcsyp · Member · Jan 6, 2009 at 12:58 am

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  Hi ivk2,

  That’s somethink I hadn’t thought, but it makes perfect sense as a contributing factor.

  Any other thoughts, anybody?

  Regards,

  drofwarc

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  sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Jan 6, 2009 at 2:11 am

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  I could have a lot more comments if I allowed disruptive people to post whatever comments they wanted. I’m not talking about spam. Lots of comments come from people looking for trouble. I discourage them, and ban them when necessary. I’d rather go for a quality blog, rather than a quarrelsome one with flames and food fights, regardless of the traffic it might generate.

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  drofwarcsyp · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 6:26 pm

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  Thanks sensuouscurmudgeon,

  Your input is appreciated.

  drofwarc

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