posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:15 AM
by
jdixon
Is Comment Moderation the Answer?
You know how funny life is sometimes? Your program works great until you tell someone that it works great, then it crashes hard. Or, in my case, I turned off blog comments because the spam was driving me nuts and no one has been leaving real comments anyway. The very next day, I started receiving some good comments on a couple of my posts. <Sigh> So, I'm turning the comments back on, and will just have to zap the spam as it comes in.
On a better note, I noticed that the .Text engine may have a solution. Apparently they have a version that features comment moderation, along with one of those Security Code features with text inside a bitmap. This might annoy some users, though. A couple of blogs (http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2004/08/13/1763.aspx, http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/2004/08/08/12888) mention negative feedback.
So what do you think? Is comment moderation the answer, or should we put up with having to delete comment spam multiple times a day?