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Blogging now for close to twenty years, and I leave the comments on. IMO real-human responsive comments are free fodder for long tail searches and are of reasonable quality, plus, if anybody reads them it increases my time-spent-on-page score. I use a plugin to filter out all the bots, and then comments with links or comments from first-time commenters land in my moderation queue. It used to take some time to moderate the real comments, but they have gotten a lot more rare so it's no burden. Are they important? Not any more. But they're essentially no extra effort once you're set up.
Oh, yeah, and I moderate like a son-of-a-bitch. If the comment isn't friendly, nice, complimentary, or otherwise fails to make me happy, it goes boom. I'm not running a freeze peach forum. I'm definitely not running a place for bitter incels to make nasty remarks about the talent whose pictures are (in theory) making me money.
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