how blogger comments work
blogger is set to send me an email of every comment made. though it’s a free, basic, vanilla blog package, it also allows future comments to be disabled per post or globally, with an option to hide all previous comments per post or globally. except for one old post i used for testing, i choose to keep commenting open and visible, dealing with infrequent harassment as it comes. there has been only one repeat harasser (a lawyer).
all comments are stored, even if deleted. deleted comments may someday be republished, since they were posted with no expectation of privacy.