Comments without Registration

Anyone is now allowed to leave comments without registering to my site. However, ads will still only be removed for those who register. Had gotten some feedback from Tekman and said how he was discouraged from leaving comments because I forced registration and email validation. You’re still required to put in a name and email address, which of course you can fake. However, unregistered comments will still be put into the moderation queue. Another benefit of registering is the fact that after I validate your 1st comment, you’ll be able to post comments without waiting in the moderation queue. I’ve gotten way too many spam comments in the past and I need some way block that. Everyday when I check my access logs, I still see about 10 sites trying to post messages to my old guestbook location.

5 Replies to “Comments without Registration”

  1. As expected, I’ve gotten 3 spam comments today already and that’s only my 1st day of allowing leaving comments/reply without registering.

    //Krunk (^_^x)

  2. Have you tried using the akismet spam blocker that’s found in WordPress 2.0? I’ve only had like, 1 spam comment out of hundreds actually make it through on my three blogs so far. It’s pretty good at getting the obvious ones, at least.

  3. Interesting. I just activated it. Going to give it a shot.

    Guess I’ll have to wait for my 1st spam to see if it really works.

    //Krunk (^_^x)

  4. guess I spoke too fast. Looking at the logs, it was really 3 spams caught, 0 passed through. the other 74 were ones that I had marked as spam.

    today it caught 3 more, but 3 passed through it.

    //krunk (^_^x)

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