Testing

I found a plugin for Movable Type today that should help me combat all the spam I’ve received in the past, while allowing readers of the site to post comments without having to go through the hassle of registering with TypeKey and all that.

Back in the day there was a decent amount of chatter from family and friends in the comments section of each of my posts. In fact, there were more comments than there were posts!

And then I started to get some spam. Then more spam. It got to the point where I had to police my site daily to delete spam comments and ban IP addresses. This got to be too much of a hassle, so I switched over to Movable Type’s registration system. This effectively shut down the spammers! Unfortunately, it was too much of a hassle for my friends and family to register with TypeKey, remember their logins and passwords, and all that stupid stuff. So the legit comments pretty much went away. This made me sad.

Since then I’ve struggled with some plugins and hacks to beat the spammers, but they always seem to be one step ahead of me. I think and I hope that this has changed with my latest plugin/hack. I won’t mention what it is for fear of giving the spammers an edge (if you really want to know what it is, send me an email).

At any rate, comments are now open again, no registration, logins, passwords required! So let the comments flow once again!