Let me give you an example of why I insist on NOT SPAM, AND I PREFER CAPS.
Today, for example, I had to dig seven comments out of 145 total, that’s 138 spam, and most ofhtem are written so you have to look close to know they’re spam.
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
IN CAPS
By the way, doing that makes it clear you are one of the blog seminar, which I like to think you’re proud of.
#1 by Alan on 01/26/2007 - 7:06 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Bob its taking forever for my comments to be sent, whats slowing them down? Follow Bob’s instructions, if not, he may take you for a socialist twit, lol kidding.
#2 by Alan on 01/26/2007 - 7:07 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Bob its taking forever for my comments to be sent, whats slowing them down? If time permits i’ll call Kelso. Follow Bob’s instructions, if not, he may take you for a socialist twit, lol kidding.
#3 by Papillon on 01/26/2007 - 9:10 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Bob, there may be a better way around this. Friends of mine have unmoderated regular contributers to their blogs. For example, the comments posted by “Friend A” who uses the email address “friend_a@email.com” (or any regular email account) are automatically accepted by the system they have in place, while all other comments must still be moderated. I am not sure HOW they do this, but like you their blogs are powered by WordPress, so I suspect it may be a feature somewhere in your administrative section. This may present a problem, however, as new participants in your blog would not think that they must post “NOT SPAM NOT SPAM” for their comments to show up (as the regular contributers would no longer need to do so).
As such, perhaps the answer would be simply to stop the automatic login of “Peter” on all computers viewing your blog. New contributers would need to register an account with WordPress before being able to post. Spammers (or rather their computers) would then have to go to the lengths of registering a WordPress account if they wanted to spam your blog, an action that would most probably violate the user agreement and therefore lead to their account being closed. I can understand if you didn’t want to use this method, though, as it could potentially lead to less comments being made by “unique” visitors to your site (ie. people who have never previously visited). I guess you would need to ask yourself how many such comments are usually received.
In summation, there are three options:
1) leave things the way they are, with you digging for comments and “NOT SPAM NOT SPAM” headings;
2) unmoderate regular contributers to your blog, EXCEPT “Peter” (since “Peter” is always logged in, enabling spam to be posted under his name); and
3) make people login using their own WordPress account if they want to post a comment.
I hope this helps you in some way.
#4 by Papillon on 01/26/2007 - 9:11 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Bob, there may be a better way around this. Friends of mine have unmoderated regular contributers to their blogs. For example, the comments posted by “Friend A” who uses the email address “friend_a@email.com” (or any regular email account) are automatically accepted by the system they have in place, while all other comments must still be moderated. I am not sure HOW they do this, but like you their blogs are powered by WordPress, so I suspect it may be a feature somewhere in your administrative section. This may present a problem, however, as new participants in your blog would not think that they must post “NOT SPAM NOT SPAM” for their comments to show up (as the regular contributers would no longer need to do so).
As such, perhaps the answer would be simply to stop the automatic login of “Peter” on all computers viewing your blog. New contributers would need to register an account with WordPress before being able to post. Spammers (or rather their computers) would then have to go to the lengths of registering a WordPress account if they wanted to spam your blog, an action that would most probably violate the user agreement and therefore lead to their account being closed. I can understand if you didn’t want to use this method, though, as it could potentially lead to less comments being made by “unique” visitors to your site (ie. people who have never previously visited). I guess you would need to ask yourself how many such comments are usually received.
In summation, there are three options:
1) leave things the way they are, with you digging for comments and “NOT SPAM NOT SPAM” headings;
2) unmoderate regular contributers to your blog, EXCEPT “Peter” (since “Peter” is always logged in, enabling spam to be posted under his name); and
3) make people login using their own WordPress account if they want to post a comment.
I hope this helps you in some way.
#5 by Peter on 01/26/2007 - 9:15 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Okay, now I am confused. I am logged in as Peter but my comment(s!) are showing and therefore seem not to have needed to be moderated.
#6 by Peter on 01/26/2007 - 9:21 am
NOT SPAM
NOT SPAM
Wait, scrap that! Now they have disappeared. I am now OFFICIALLY confused. That means even MORE confused, because as we all know, it takes officals FOR EVER to realise how things really are, and so by the time they are aware of common, everyday things the situation is even worse (or more intense) than previously.