…it’s almost exclusively to prevent spam in the comments.   Those of you who don’t run your own blog would not believe how much spam tries to invade blog comments these days.   It’s amazing.   I suspect most of it is simply to jack up Google rankings.   Anyway, that’s why you have to wait for me to approve comments.   It isn’t about controlling what opinions get expressed here, though if I see post or thread highjacking taking place I’ll put a stop to that too.   The moderation is about blocking spam.   Sorry.   This is why we can’t have nice things.