As an experiment, I will be closing down comments on all posts that haven't had any comments for a few weeks. The idea is to shrink the target for comment spammers — I had hundreds of comment spams over the weekend despite MT-Blacklist and I'm getting more than a little fed up swatting it all.
Recent Bluessky Posts- Today's efficiency: ignoring the super bowl and the winter Olympics at the same time. February 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Florida is not traditionally a place where protests that don't target a Castro tend to happen. That we're seeing this in Florida high schools tells you just how deep the opposition runs. February 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Do the people pushing this crazed rule think the students may refer to themselves using the B word? February 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dave Farber. He was a true pioneer who had major influence on the architecture of the Internet and tech policy. Rest in peace to one of the most "Interesting People" our field has ever known. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/iet... February 8, 2026 Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD
- Pritzker (with Warnock) February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
I had the same problem this weekend. Any chance you could post the changes you make to MT in order to disallow comments for older posts?
I installed a very effective plugin called mt-close2.