Viewing Articles with the tag: co.mments
Knowing When to Close ‘em
10.May.07 | Leave a Comment
A bit over a month ago, I mentioned Comment Timeout, a WordPress plugin that can be very helpful in the ongoing battle against blog spam. It does some slick stuff and even has integration with Bad Behavior, another great weapon in the same battle.
The option to automatically block comments with bbcode in them is [...]
The "I Follow" Movement
11.Apr.07 | 18 Comments
Back in February, I wrote about removing the “nofollow” tags from folks who comment. Why punish folks who took the time to leave a (valid) comment?
Today, the Randa Clay Design blog released some logos to share with folks who have turned off “nofollow” and wrote an announcement article. You’ll see the logo flying over [...]
Another Tool in the Blog Anti-Spam Toolkit
18.Mar.07 | 3 Comments
Blog spam is a bummer, isn’t it? So much of it is automated and shows up as Trackbacks or Pingbacks. Without using decent tools, a blogger can easily find themself spending way too much time chasing this stuff around. That causes folks to sometimes take extreme measures like forcing commenter registration [...]
Co.mments.com problems?
20.Feb.07 | Leave a Comment
Suppose you were hooked on using co.mments.com to track comments you’ve left on blogs. (last mentioned here in March ‘06)
Suppose it seemed to be having major problems the last week or so.
What would you look at as a comparable alternative? Or would you keep the faith and hope all is well?
That nofollow Thing
15.Feb.07 | 24 Comments
As many are aware, by default WordPress adds a rel=”nofollow” to the URLs in comments. The genesis of this seems to be from a couple years ago when blog spam (I’d imagine trackback spam in particular) was getting worse and the options we have now weren’t around or as refined.
I’ve noticed some of the [...]
