/ kalebeul / 2004 / 09 / 23 / commenter approval /
I’ve turned on the blog feature that requires me to OK commenters first time round. This is to stop a gentleman not a million miles from here who has been spamming the comment sections. It provides me with no more information about you than I already have, and no legitimate and reasonably sane person will be turned away.
Update: doesn’t work, no time to make it work, so I’ve just gone over to moderating comments as they come in, which shouldn’t take too much time :o)
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Tell me if the spam dragon gives you a hard time. Log in if you want to be really foul.
23 September 2004 at 4:47 PM
This is a good feature. But of course it sounds better than ‘registration’, but I suppose it is registration. No, no password - that’s something.
Any conclusions about Wordpress - is it easier to stay with MT? I’m going to have to try one of these other programs out.
23 September 2004 at 4:54 PM
Not really registration - eg doesn’t validate name/email - and I already got IPs (which are usually faked by spammers anyway).
I’m doing a biggish thing for someone with WP. It’s more powerful than MT but is also more difficult if you’ve got a karaoke hangover.