# Turning on Comments - Bigdinosaur Blog

**URL:** <https://cog.discourse.group/t/turning-on-comments-bigdinosaur-blog/668>\
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**Created:** [March 4, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/turning-on-comments-bigdinosaur-blog/668 "2014-03-04T00:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigDinoBlog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/bigdinoblog/32/417_2.png) [@BigDinoBlog](https://cog.discourse.group/u/BigDinoBlog)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/turning-on-comments-bigdinosaur-blog/668/1 "2014-03-04T00:25:06Z")

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Turned on comments. God help us. The last time I had a blog with comments on it was six years ago and it was a spammy disaster. I hope we fare better here.

Integrating [Disqus comments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus) with Octopress is ludicrously easy—simply sign up for Disqus (it’s free), then paste your account’s short name into `_config.yml` in the root of your Octopress directory and…and that’s it.

I suppose if you want to do something more you can sign up for [Akismet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akismet), a similarly-free antispam service. That should help to keep things nice and clean.

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