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I’d rather not have to man­u­ally delete com­ment spam. I could (1) turn on com­ment mod­er­a­tion, so that com­ments don’t appear until I approve them; or (2) turn on com­ment ver­i­fi­ca­tion, so that some­one who wants to post a com­ment needs to type in a string of num­bers and let­ters in order to post a com­ment. Both of these options are annoying.

Any­one have an opinion?

Update 8/5/06: I’ve enabled com­ment moderation.

Update: 8/7/06: I was won­der­ing how long it would take for this post to get com­ment spam. Four days.

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By David – 3 August 2006

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  1. Anonymous says

    Turn on com­ment ver­i­fi­ca­tion. It’s a mild con­ve­nience. In my expe­ri­ence it’s use is wide­spread. Won­der­ful blog BTW. I just read through quite a few of your posts. I now have a good grasp of tem­pera grassa.

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    7 August 2006, 12:08 PM Reply
  2. David says

    Thanks for your sug­ges­tion; I’m con­sid­er­ing it. I’m glad you find what I’ve writ­ten helpful.

    8 August 2006, 10:59 AM Reply
  3. Vyoma says

    I am not sure if you still have the prob­lem, but why do you not use the Akismet plugin?

    (And sorry for reply­ing to this old post — I am going through all your posts. :) )

    25 April 2007, 4:44 PM Reply
  4. David says

    Vyoma,

    I have no prob­lem with ref­er­ences to old posts. Please feel free to com­ment on any post on this blog.

    At the time I wrote that post, I was using Blogspot, which had fairly prim­i­tive spam man­age­ment fea­tures. I have since migrated to Word­Press and have enjoyed its much more robust capa­bil­i­ties and plu­gin archi­tec­ture. I cur­rently use Akismet in com­bi­na­tion with Bad Behav­ior and Sim­ple Track­back Val­i­da­tion as spam man­age­ment tools. That com­bi­na­tion works extremely well for me and it has been some time since a spam mes­sage got through.

    25 April 2007, 8:42 PM Reply



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