Friday, November 26, 2010

Disabling anonymous comments for a while

Due to issues with spam comments lately I am temporarily disabling "anonymous" comments for a while. Anyone with a Blogger or Wordpress account, or with an OpenID, can still leave comments, and of course you can always send me messages via the email address on the sidebar.

-- PB

7 comments:

  1. Young man - where have you been!! Glad to see you back...

    I disabled anonymous comments on my blog ages ago.

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  2. I never had that many problems, but hey, I'm not anonymous so I can comment as often as I want. :p

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  3. I've noticed an uptick in spam comments recently too. Has Blogger's imagey-text mechanism been defeated, or are spammers just so desperate that they're doing bugging people manually now? I'm afraid I'll eventually have to join you in shutting down anonymous comments.

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  4. I've been seeing a lot more anonymous spam lately, too. Not just ads, but these weird spam compliments and requests for links and stuff. All anonymously with no links, so I don't see what they're trying to accomplish. Weird.

    Blogger's spamcatcher seems to filter most of it, though, otherwise I'd have to disable anonymous comments, too.

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  5. Scarlett: I'm still here, I just took last week off for Thanksgiving. :)

    Spring Flower: True enough!

    Dioneo: I wasn't using the CAPTCHA mechanism because I find it rather annoying on other websites. Maybe I should have.

    Riff: Who knows (or cares) what goes through the mind of a spammer? Less than human, they are. :)

    -- PB

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  6. I feel unloved. Not because you've turned of anonymous comments, but because I'm not getting spammed to death. No one cares *sniffle*

    That was a sniffle just then. Not a chuckle of victory. Far from it ;)

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  7. Lexi: LIAR! LIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!! I saw that smirk, I did! :)

    -- PB

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Thanks for chiming in! I will always read and respond to comments here; if you don't feel like using the "email responses" link, feel free to check back for my replies!
-- PB