Sorry, guys – but I can’t fight comment spammers anymore. I tried to have a pretty unrestricted status of allowing unregistered people to leave comments, and then the post author would just have to approve the comments seperately. Today I spent an hour cleaning out over 500 comment spams. These things eat up our bandwidth, which costs me money, and make it almost impossible to keep track of legitimate posts. Therefore, effective immediately, you will notice 2 changes:
1) You no longer have to provide your e-mail addy if you don’t want to. I originally thought that this would provide some level of protection, but it doesn’t.
2) You have to have a typekey account to comment. I know it’s a pain in the ass, but I just don’t have the time to deal with it anymore. If I miss a couple of days of cleaning out spam, our comments folder is literally choked with spam for texas holdem, viagra, and lolita sex sites.
Typekey registration is “here.”:https://www.typekey.com/t/typekey
Sorry for the inconvenience, but the spam issue is taking all of the blogging fun away.
So, you’re spammed. Might be time to move the blog to a domain that has better protection.
I know I’m not alone, but I view having to sign into Six Apart’s Typekey system to be very intrusive. All the SA types reading this might get the same feeling when they have to have a CHL to carry a firearm that the Constitution says we have an inalienable right to do.
Enuff said.
And for any Six Apart geeks that might be thinking of making up a log of my commenting and giving it to ANYONE, let me just say that if you can’t run 2800 feet per second, you’re in a world of hurt.
I agree 100% that Typekey is intrusive. But I haven’t seen a lot of other alternatives out there, short of a custom script to register commenters.
Like I said, I tried really hard not to go this route, but the amount of spam is unfucking believable right now.
I’m open to alternative to moveable type – as long as the migration of all of the RNS content is pretty seamless……..
Well, I guess it’s kind of like jumping in with both feet, so as long as you are going the restriction route, you’d better restrict trackbacks to those who put a link in THEIR blog-posts that they fire the trackback from.
That will at least protect you from trackback spam.
I can’t blame you Doc… I have about 7000 comment spams to clean out since I took a few weeks off.
This evening after work promises to be mildly unpleasant.
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