Scott Nelle

WordPress lets you set a number of days after which comments will be unavailable for individual posts. This plugin will allow you to keep commenting open on specific posts.
Once the plugin is enabled:
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<li>Set a comment deadline in Settings > Discussion using the “Automatically Close Comments…” option. Closing comments on old posts is a great way to avoid spam comments.</li>
<li>Edit an individual post on which you’d like to keep discussion open indefinitely and check the Override Comment Deadline box.</li>
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Override Comment Deadline

Allows you to enable comments on posts which are older than the comment deadline set in discussion settings.

Raven’s antispam – powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam. No set-up necessary, install and forget.
<h4>Details</h4>
Visitors with enabled JavaScript (99%+) see nothing – no annoying questions, no captcha, nothing. (Users with disabled JS see an additional text-field and a word that must be rewritten into the textfield.)
Note: this plugin is not able to check your trackbacks – to handle trackback spam, it’s necessary to use some other solution. (I recommend to disable trackbacks globally, since they rarely bring any benefit for your readers.) <a href="http://kahi.cz/wordpress/ravens-antispam-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">more…</a>.

Raven's Antispam

Powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam.

Override Comment Deadline vs Raven's Antispam