It’s not even clear to me that any of my readers want to comment on my posts or to connect to any of them with a pingback, but…
I shut off comments and pingbacks because I didn’t have the time to check all the comments including the very few labeled spam which were legitimate comments. I don’t know if spam is currently a major problem. The spam included a lot of links to sites selling replica luxury goods and also some irrelevant or disrespectful comments but that problem wasn’t too bad for my blog.
In any case, comments and pingbacks will be allowed on a trial basis as of the new postings after today, 2016/09/06.