Comment Spam

Since I migrated my blog from MT to Wordpress, the comment spam has dried up. Perhaps Google hasn’t finished indexing my site or I’m just not drawing as much traffic as I used to. I don’t know what caused the change but I love the peace and quiet. Comment moderation seems to be quite effective. I have heard a lot of stories about Typekey has driving away comments while people are still getting comment spam. I thought Typekey was a good idea for a minute and realized it’s just going to create more work for the readers. When you make your readers work too hard, they don’t stick around. When I was using CMS software like Xoops and PostNuke, I had the same problem. The users didn’t feel like creating logins to see certain content so they didn’t. The news page got tons of hits and no one went any deeper. With precious few readers, the less work you make them do, the better.

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