Comments
As regular readers of this blog know, I have had serious problems with spam on this site. It’s gotten to the point where I have decided to by default close down comments. Today I have opened up comments on the top three blogs listed, and I will leave them that way for a week or so (unless they get spammed), and then I’ll go ahead and close them down to comments again. I know that this curtails some banter. I had to decide for the sake of the blog, and it’s seriousness whether to just let the spam continue, or to cut it off at the knees. I decided on the latter. I have contemplated getting another software, but unless one of you have a remarkable solution that guarantees my google, yahoo, and msn rankings (that are all currently on the first page for just about every “Romney” search term) I am stuck with it. Anyway, didn’t mean to turn this into a novel. I just wanted to make those aware who have emailed me about it why the comments function was turned off.
April 9th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
This might be a good place to start…
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools
I always like the captcha, it seems like the most effective anti-spam tool. Also, since you don’t advertise, maybe you can set up a paypal account so people can help out. Take care.
April 9th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
This would be great, but it still doesn’t change the fact that if I change software I lose my google/yahoo/msn rankings because the file names don’t transfer over right. That’s my biggest problem.
April 10th, 2006 at 12:07 am
You know more about this than I do. I thought you could just run a script or upload a code to your blog. Here is an example of what I was refering to…
http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2005/01/28/b2evo-captcha-explained/
whether this would effect your ranking, I don’t know. It wouldn’t be changing software, but just adding or altering your existing setup. Hope this help!!
April 10th, 2006 at 12:41 am
Have you installed the captcha hack? It displays an image with numbers that the commenter must type before the comment is submitted. It has eliminated all spam on my blog.
Here is the hack0
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=2976
I saw in b2’s forum that their next version will have a built in captcha plugin.
April 11th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Even when comments are turned off, we all read you anyway, Gurl!