Ready to get started?Download WordPress   Comments should be off
by default    1. lovingboth      Currently, WordPress sets up a
site with no active protection against comment spam, but with
comments enabled on the samples.      That this is not best
practice can be seen by the fact that a search for '"Welcome to
WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start blogging!" viagra' produces over one and a half million
hits.      Use some other typical spam words, and it's worse.
Comments are lovely, but they should only be turned on when the
site is ready, i.e. is using Akismet or an equivalent service.
Posted: 6 months ago #   2. zactoff       Yes! Are you a blog or
a CMS?      Leave the comments auto enabled for wordpress.com
accounts by all means.      Posted: 6 months ago #   3.
lovingboth      It's possible that there are a million and a
half sites selling Viagra by design and which haven't edited
their sample post, but it's not very likely :)      "Sorry, not
right now" is a poo