RFC: "Blogifying" my site's top page

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, as anyone who's visited it knows, I use the top page of my site as a rather infrequently-updated blog.  After (re-)compiling a wishlist of new features for my site, I decided that implementing it as a dynamic page with its contents (past and present) in a MySQL database was one of the first things I wanted to code up... and that led me to think about exactly what I wanted in that dynamic page.  I'm certainly going to have the latest entry, tags, history and search...  but should I implement reader comments?  After all, that's really the kind of thing the forums are for, and it's a level of complexity (what with user registration and validation and all kinds of other crap such as input filtering and cleaning) that I'm not all that keen on dealing with, not to mention the everpresent joy of blog spammers.  So I'm inclined to make it simple and one-way. 
Even so, I'm curious as to what folks here thought on the matter.  If enough people say they want it, well, hell, maybe I'll do it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Sweno]

I'd vote no on the comments. As you have said, it's what this is for
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Wiregeek]

blog, yes, comments, resounding 'no'
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Dartz]

Another nail in the comments coffin. Like has been said, I doubt it'd be used for anything the forum isn't used for. I doubt it'd be used much at all, tbh, for anything that isn't better handled by email. Aside from the spam, it's probably just way more trouble than it's worth.

The blog itself on the other hand, sounds like a great idea.
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[Bob Schroeck]

Well, I'm glad to see I'm thinking the way my reader base does. That bodes well. Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.