Another first...

VAOJ received its first obscene comment and link about this post from March 17. My apologies to anyone who saw it and/or was offended by it. The comment was in Japanese and I wonder how it got there... Anyway I turned back on that pesky word verification function for comments; I don't want to turn into a fascist moderator. But as you know, I am new to these things. What do you think? Should I be happy about the obscene link (does it mean people or machines are reading the blog?) or concerned? Is moderation really necessary for blog post comments? What does this say open open access and collaboration?