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June 06, 2005
The Deal With Comments
In case anyone is wondering why they have to register with TypeKey in order to post a comment, it's mainly to help prevent comment spam. For those who don't feel like wading through the gory details in the preceding link, comment spam is like email spam, except that the messages are posted to the comment sections of weblogs. When first I converted this site to a weblog format, I allowed unrestricted posting of comments. I wanted to make it as easy as possible for someone who was just wandering through to leave me a note. Within a couple of weeks, however, my blog entries had about 20 "comments" each, every one of which was an advertisement for an online casino. It didn't take long before monitoring and deleting comment spam became a real pain. And that was with only two blog entries! I could see that as the number of entries grew, manual culling of the spam would become impossible. So, I opted for the TypeKey solution. Now you know.
Posted by Tim at June 6, 2005 10:28 PM
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