Recent blogging trend: bloggers switching OFF the comments section. Have noticed that on a few blogs. Could the reasons be...?

Apart from the obvious...of dealing with the usual spam - and if the blog is fundie/conservative, you know dern well, that's bound to attract some really nasty jezebel's and their groupies.  But for the most part, is the silencing of comments ... oh comeon, most bloggers check their stats, and really like it when people visit.   

One blogger, who has her comment section open, was really upset, because someone posted something negative ... she's very into the new-agey positivism (there is a so-called christian kind, but it's "another gospel" - can ya spell f.a.k.e., fake)!  Negative comment.  Does she mean, the person used rude, foul language?  Well duh, who wouldn't be upset?  Or was it simply someone who disagreed with her socio-politics? If it be the later, welcome to blogging.

i don't know, didn't read the comment.  Nor will i go looking for it.  And anyway, it could have been cancelled - alot of that going on.  And i wonder, do younger bloggers play the silencing game?  Come to think of it, back in the early 80s - when, for a short while, had joined up with - what was considered back then, a radical organization.  One of the women had whispered that she didn't like censorship - but she didn't want the leaders to that.  Oh no no, and no!  That would have seriously spelled curtains for her eventually getting into a leadership position.  She was one of the popular people, and no, she didn't want to lose that - so, she, evidently kept some political feelings to herself.  This group talked alot about personal freedom ... uhm -hmm.

But we were 20 and 30-somethings.  Now, some 40 years latef, i thought that wisdom and tolerance came with age.   Guess not quite ;/