Only DC authors themselves will be allowed to comment on DC now. John has personally been filtering out criticism for several days now. That has taken so much of his time, apparently, that he is now opting for a full ban on all comments made by non-DC authors. He says:
I know many of you like to comment on a post of ours, and we like to have good feedback from you. But I am temporarily suspending this for the holidays. No matter what I do it's time consuming for me to moderate comments and/or when not moderating them to delete comments that do not meet our comment policy. We have Blog terrorists who hit every so often. In addition I receive many emails a day to answer (which I'm no longer publishing on my profile), and people make comments on over 1400 past posts, some of which require a response from me.... On some days we need Blog maintenance (right now the "Recent Comments" link isn't properly working). So for the holidays enjoy what we write. This is only temporary. If you must comment do it on your own Blogs. Sorry, I need to do this.
Of course, the real reason for the ban is that John has been receiving too much criticism lately. (If it were really a "time" issue, John coul simply ask the other authors to moderate comments.) John knows that when he posts entries with indefensible claims, the best thing he can do is censor independent commentary.
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