Unwanted Comments: Comment spam is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Shirley has a good roundup of resources to help you fight it.
“Some site owners stave off comment spam by closing off older comments, using blacklists, using filters, just deleting them when they occur, or a combination of these. Below are some good possibilities along with my comments and thoughts about what I’ve implemented so far.”
This may be a good argument for using a discussion board as a blogging system — or anything that requires some kind of log-in or membership capability.
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Rob left a comment on a previous entry about the site Pocket PC Thoughts. This site is doing something I've been thinking about for a while: running a blog-type site off of discussion board software. I first investigated the idea in this posting to the Movable Type support forum where…
Ounce of prevention: Adam Kalsey is in a war against comment spam, and he shares some great ideas here: "What will probably be the biggest help is the thing that was easiest to do: changing the comment script name. What else would be effective is changing the names of all the form…
Simon Willison: Blacklisting Comment Spam: I got a comment spam the other day. Annoying. "I'm fed up with comment spam. From now on, any comment I judge to be spam will be deleted, and the domains linked to from that comment will be blacklisted. Any future comments that contain…