After a few people made some attempts to use the commenting system (thanks guys!), I’ve decided to keep the CAPTCHA. Overall, people don’t seem to have trouble with it, even if they have to reload it a couple times.
I have, however, relaxed the rules which queue comments for moderation. This was causing confusion for some people, and more time doing admin for me, as I had to approve the comments. Some comments will still be moderated if they look like spam, but that should be pretty rare.
Thanks to everybody who helped out.
Site update
Recently, reader wystii pointed out that comments were not showing the gaps between paragraphs. I took a quick look through the CSS and found and tweaked the offending code. Hopefully that should sort things out. Thanks, wystii!
While I’m at it, over the next few weeks, I’ll be providing links to a new web video series. It’s about gaming, and a really great initiative. More details soon.