Comments on: No More Anonymous Cowards Allowed

By: Carlos Alberto Pinto Peixoto Bastos Santos

Carlos Alberto Pinto Peixoto Bastos Santos — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:19:38 +0000

Why haven’t you tried TypeKey, as a lot of us readers are registered to it?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:38:25 +0000

Are there not WP spam bots?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:32:20 +0000

Ahh that sucks. Wish there were more adults about.

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:55:19 +0000

Hi Chris – the problem was more than just comment spam, it was users posting inappropriate/nasty comments using fake e-mail addresses, so I could not contact them.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:19:40 +0000

Mike, you tried Akismet? I use this, and find that it blocks all the spam I ever get. I seem to remember you mentioning this a few weeks ago; not work too well?

By: treblig

treblig — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:02:22 +0000

@Somebody, I agree.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:59:01 +0000

It’s better that way anyway, it allows you to get to know individual users better.

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:37:10 +0000

Stridey – it wouldn’t have worked; there’s already a user by that name (Mike)

By: stridey

stridey — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:33:33 +0000

I was tempted to name myself “Anonymous Coward”, just for the funny, but managed to restrain myself.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:57:48 +0000

No worries – registration took about 5 seconds. Keep up the good work!