I checked my email earlier and was annoyed to discover that there were over 200 pieces of comment spam posted on this site since yesterday. 200! This kinda pissed me off so I enabled comment moderation, which means that whenever you post a comment I have to approve it. ‘S’not a big deal; just means your comment might not appear for a few hours.
I don’t like doing this, however, so I’m considering one of two other options in place of it.
Word Verification: When you go to post a comment, a little image appears with six or seven letters, which you have to then type into a box to post your comment. Pretty simple to do, unless you have trouble reading the letters, which are usually wavy or some such nonsense. I’ve never had any issues with it, personally.
Typekey Registration: With Typekey, the very first time you’d go to post a comment, you would have to click on a link which would take you to another site, which looks like this. There, you would register, which is really easy to do, and then you would follow a link back to my site, where you are free to comment. The nice thing about Typekey is that the username and password you create don’t onlywork for JBdN, they work for any other blog that chooses to use Typekey. Also, it gives you an option to remain signed-in for two weeks at a time. If you post a comment after ten days, then you’re good to go for another two weeks. You can visit my Typekey profile here.
If you can’t tell, I’m leaning towards the Typekey route. It would just be make my Interweeb life a whole lot easier. So what are your guys’ thoughts on the matter? Do you have a preference between the two? If I did go with Typekey, would you bother to create an account, or would you just cease commenting?
I was going to post some pictures tonight, but the commenting issue distracted me. I’m also starting to get sick, courtesy of my mom and sister, so I believe I’ll just retire for the evening and possibly finish my book.
JAB
4 Responses to “SPAMALOT”
I already have a typekey account, although I can’t remember the username or password for the life of me. So sure, I’d keep posting. Who else do you need besides me? Screw all those other posters.
Upgrade to MT 3.2. Aparently, they’ve redisigned the commenting system that has spam fighting capabilities. It may help.
Ryan
I like nate’s attitude I also have a typekey account, which I cannot remember a passowrd to, although maybe I should upgrade my non-profit status, and recieve a new version of MT it’s pretty easy to update from what I remember.
I checked out some of the spam-fighting features on MT 3.2. Some of it seems like it might work, but I’ve read some negative reviews. More research will be necessary, I think. Glad everyone approves of Typekey, though. I may go that route. Right now, just having to approve the comments is a lot easier than deleting them as they come in. Except when I accidentally delete the wrong comments and have to manually repost them — that sucks.
JAB
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