tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post3869419300613679151..comments2023-07-18T07:27:08.516+00:00Comments on Siren Voices: no more moderation!Spence Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-41876870588978661352012-10-03T08:32:36.929+00:002012-10-03T08:32:36.929+00:00Well there's been a few overnight, but so far ...Well there's been a few overnight, but so far Google seems to have been pretty good at stuffing them straight in the spam box (apart from one I had to do manually). So far so good.<br /><br />It's incredible what they'll try to flog - viagra, handbags, books. They've got some nerve...Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-72509258827198570152012-10-03T07:21:40.542+00:002012-10-03T07:21:40.542+00:00Hopefully there will be no spam or any other such ...Hopefully there will be no spam or any other such nonsense on here Spence.<br /><br />Hopefully no-one will be,say,trying to flog their book on here.jacksofbuxtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05420847156401984373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-70477964294674684322012-10-03T06:16:31.198+00:002012-10-03T06:16:31.198+00:00Thanks Daniel. I've not heard of Akismet - wil...Thanks Daniel. I've not heard of Akismet - will check it out. The whole business of spamming is bizarre (and infuriating). Do the people who create that stuff really think anyone will go to those sites / buy those things? It just seems like such an anti-social and anti-productive thing to do. Since I turned off the moderation yesterday I've only had one, though, so that's not bad. I'll see how it goes. But it feels better not having moderation.<br /><br />Cheers for the comment, Daniel.Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-55079041625004360132012-10-03T00:36:31.325+00:002012-10-03T00:36:31.325+00:00It's odd that Blogger doesn't seem to offe...It's odd that Blogger doesn't seem to offer any robust anti-comment-spam system. You'd think Google could roll their own Akismet-like thingy. All you seem to be able to do, though...<br />http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42064<br />...is moderate, or allow free posting, or allow free posting with a captcha. Captchas aren't USELESS, but they're hardly best-practice these days.<br /><br />If you get hit by "serious" spammers I suppose you'll just have to turn moderation back on. I hope there's some way to get rid of bulk comments, because some spammers are VERY prolific. For ages on my blog (when it was dansdata.blogsome.com; now it's <a href="http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/" rel="nofollow">howtospotapsychopath.com</a>), I had spammers that would create scores, possibly hundreds, of user accounts per day, but who couldn't figure out the captcha system and so never actually posted any spam. But boy, did they make a mess of my user-list page, and Blogsome, who offered semi-proprietary Wordpress hosting, didn't let me kill those accounts en masse. The current version of the blog has a standard Wordpress install and works much better.Daniel Rutterhttp://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-15786761425667343682012-10-02T22:23:51.759+00:002012-10-02T22:23:51.759+00:00Thanks Baglady. It definitely looks like the way t...Thanks Baglady. It definitely looks like the way to go!Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-40531113441500323982012-10-02T20:00:52.506+00:002012-10-02T20:00:52.506+00:00I agree. I get more problems when I open my blog t...I agree. I get more problems when I open my blog to anonymous comments than when I switch off moderation.Bagladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03997388396773480963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-3808483361272995382012-10-02T19:38:51.778+00:002012-10-02T19:38:51.778+00:00Good to hear you haven't been snowed with spam...Good to hear you haven't been snowed with spam, Philip. I prob should've done it a long time ago. Nice work, Elaine. <br />Now type these characters: a2 - or is that a z? - 3, is it? z again. No. *!)8/£# Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-51861861028346926222012-10-02T18:40:37.367+00:002012-10-02T18:40:37.367+00:00Good decision! Causes no prob on mine now. Just go...Good decision! Causes no prob on mine now. Just got to do the behind the scenes work. The moderation stuff is becoming so indecipherable nowadays. I hope you get more comments as a result.Philip Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13164671362164285231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-53395857335157547332012-10-02T18:02:51.734+00:002012-10-02T18:02:51.734+00:00Lol! Save that for another day, eh? :)Lol! Save that for another day, eh? :)Elaine Denninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640829930815645105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-81051148454791802772012-10-02T15:42:33.610+00:002012-10-02T15:42:33.610+00:00Yay! It works!
Funnily enough - I was just trying...Yay! It works!<br /><br />Funnily enough - I was just trying to get the Hong Kong Phooey pic to link to the Warner Bros site, but ah just cain't do it, ah simply cain't.Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-63613170086626734442012-10-02T15:39:33.121+00:002012-10-02T15:39:33.121+00:00Like you said, see how it goes, but for me persona...Like you said, see how it goes, but for me personally it's a good move :) I really hope people treat your space with the respect it deserves. Elaine Denninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640829930815645105noreply@blogger.com