We all know that the more comments a blog receives, the more popular it becomes.

It’s still a bit of a catch 22, as your blog needs to be somewhat popular in order to get the comments in the 1st place.

There are many ways to entice people to comment on your blog in the 1st place, but, that is outside the scope of this article.

There are TONS of WordPress plugins which can help you make the whole comment experience much better for the comment poster, but, most of them takes time to setup, and some technical know how.

I came accross an AWESOME FREE service a couple of days ago, which fixes the need to install, configure and manage multiple plugins to enhace the comment experience. It’s called Intense Debate, and you can see it in action at the bottom of this post.

Get your own free account here: http://www.intensedebate.com/install

So, I let my WHOLE list know about the new design on the site, and ask them to comment on the previous post on how they like, or not like the new design, ONLY to be inundated with HelpDesk tickets saying that they get a WP-HashCash fail when trying to post.

I Installed WP-HashCash MONTHS ago to help stop SPAM bots, but, as luck would have it, it seems like it was stopping basically ALL comments!

O well, lesson learned, and HashCash disabled now. Will just moderate all comments.

If you tried to post, and could not, please try again now. Should work 100%.