comment problems

 comment problems  commonly include spam, abuse, and other noise that can motivate switching to silo comment embeds, or turning off comments entirely.

Issues
Common complaints include:


 * Spam control
 * Moderation becomes overwhelming
 * Inability to surface useful comments amidst noise
 * Moving the conversation to a silo is 'easier' [citation needed]
 * Comments change how the post is interpreted by the reader

POSSE and backfeed
If you POSSE to a silo and then backfeed comments on that POSSE copy, you may experience the same issues that the silo experiences in general, e.g.
 * 2015-09-11..13 saw abusive tweets show-up on his site that were made in-reply-to the POSSE tweet copies of his indieweb posts about the 2015 XOXO conference and festival

Solutions

 * Use webmention. For now, spam and the other mentioned problems has not been a problem with purely indieweb webmentions, likely because webmention is not widespread enough to be a target.

Note: if you POSSE and backfeed, especially using a backfeed to webmention service like Bridgy, you may receive spam and other abuse via webmentions from Bridgy from silo posts.