Comments on: Killing Comment Spam (Still)

By: tksinclair

tksinclair — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:51:48 +0000

I think it’s great! Typekey on sez me! I’m prone to say stupid things and often off topic things (although it’s just a misfiring brain, not intentional) but signing in is a breeze - I get a spam a week, relative to the volume of readers (sad huh?) but one of these days, when that trust fund kicks in, I plan to have someone like you, with experience, help me with a “REAL” blog and hopefully not only will I understand what your saying (3hive, Typekey, Moveable Type, etc.) but will need the service too!

By: Z

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:44:08 +0000

I’ve been impressed since upgrading to 3.2, how that in itself has helped with my comment spam. They still try, but MT recognizes them and Junks them. I havent had to turn on Typekey yet, but I’m not against it.

However, I recently got my site hacked and the same sites were just depositing their links in my archives. It was my own naivety because I never noticed MT defaults the archive directory permissions to 777, but I found where to change that default in the mt-config.cgi, deleted my archives and republished and everything seems better now. I hope.

My point? I dont have a problem with Typekey at all. I think its a good resource , but I’ve been fortunate to not need it.

By: blurb

blurb — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:25:40 +0000

WordPressers, how much does Askimet cost you? Isn’t it subscription service?

By: Eric Rogers

Eric Rogers — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:07:49 +0000

For those folks in the WordPress world, check out Akismet. It kills spam brilliantly, both in comments and trackbacks. I have had zero spam get through it over a few months of use. Their API is available for use with other non-WP blogs.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:10:45 +0000

Why would anyone have a problem signing in…if you have something to say then why would taking 2.5 seconds to sign in make people complain? Are people really that lazy or are they affraid of being rejected by the “Cool and Powerful” so they just don’t do it at all…sad little men they are.

By: EricaDaun

EricaDaun — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:21:30 +0000

Hey Jon,

I had absolutely no problems with giving my email address so I could leave a little note. (I did so first on Heather’s site.) I think that you should have to give a little of your self up if you want to make personal comments on someone else’s blog. I’m glad you found something that would allow you to do it so well. I love reading your’s and Heather’s site, keep up the good work!

Cheers,
ED

By: Coelecanth

Coelecanth — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:35:50 +0000

Because I have a virus eating my brain I’m going to paraphrase a comment I read elsewhere instead of thinking of something original:

I don’t hate the guy who invented comment spam, everyone has bad ideas from time to time. No, I hate the guy who was sitting next to him when he came up the idea. The one who said “Hey that’s a great idea, you should totally do that.” *That* guy’s going to burn in hell.

To whomever said this orignally, thank you.
[returns to his handkerchief, orange juice and phlegmy excrescences]

By: Zazzy

Zazzy — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:27:31 +0000

What amazes me is that spam bots even find my little weblog. It’s just a personal site and the half a dozen spams I get (neatly handled by wordpress) per day is more than my total visitors probably.

What has annoyed me is I used a real email to sign up for this typekey authentification and ever since have started getting spam at this address. That is not something I appreciate but is my own fault for not using one of my spam accounts.

By: lemoose

lemoose — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:32:57 +0000

Signing in makes me feel popular. I don’t do it on my blog because I crave attention, and if someone were to respond, I would rather have the immediate, off-the-cuff reaction.

But for a site like this, I can definitely see the need.

I was once a corporate trainer, and whenever the adoption rate on a new application was low, users would respond by saying “Application X sucks!”

To which I would respond, “Application X doesn’t suck, you suck!”

So, to anyone complaining about typekey (or any other blog-login mechanism): Typekey doesn’t suck, you suck!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:54:57 +0000

I never mind signing in since I am 99.99% sure I don’t suck.
And I agree with others, my husband and I giggle at some of the blurbodoocery comments sometimes.