Public Service Announcement

I received an email yesterday which began as follows:

Instead of a private response back, I would prefer to see your answer as a post on your blog where you leave the comments open for people to respond for several years unlike many of your other posts where I noticed that the comments sections section was already closed.  I had just finished reading your post about [the inverse farm size–productivity relationship] and was going to leave a comment asking for you opinion about [spam].

Since the comments section was not open, could you please make a seperate (sic) post to express your opinion about it.  And then let me know when that is up, as I try not to subscribe to too many people’s blogs.

Since I receive several such emails every month — many of which address me by my first name and, oddly enough  ask me to post an “infographic” of some sort — I figured it was time I made a public service announcement:

• Comments sections close after two weeks. This is so I don’t have to wade through hundreds of spam comments every morning when I wake up.
• Though I welcome suggestions about what I should be writing about, those suggestions should be about things I am qualified to write about and which will be of interest to this blog’s readership.
• On a related note, this blog is not your personal online marketing space. If that’s what you want, may I suggest that you start your own blog, pay the few hundred dollars it costs to run it every year, and develop your own readership?
• Have a nice day.