Comments on: On Wordpress, Akismet, and Spam http://www.agilitysoftware.com/2007/04/10/on-wordpress-akismet-and-spam/ Business Led Computing Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alastair Bathgate http://www.agilitysoftware.com/2007/04/10/on-wordpress-akismet-and-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Alastair Bathgate Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:16:07 +0000 http://www.workforceinabox.com/?p=27#comment-36 Thanks Ciaran. I think I'll leave moderation on for a while until I get a chance to take a look at OpenID at least. Strangely since the spam attack last weekend - the amount of spam has completely dried up and I only get a small handful of spam posts (all caught by Akismet) a day now. Thanks Ciaran. I think I’ll leave moderation on for a while until I get a chance to take a look at OpenID at least.
Strangely since the spam attack last weekend – the amount of spam has completely dried up and I only get a small handful of spam posts (all caught by Akismet) a day now.

]]> By: Ciaran http://www.agilitysoftware.com/2007/04/10/on-wordpress-akismet-and-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Ciaran Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:10:56 +0000 http://www.workforceinabox.com/?p=27#comment-26 I can't think of too many advantages of allowing unmoderated comments, compared to the benefits of screening, so I would definitely lean towards screening. You're missing an in-between solution though, which is allowing unmoderated comments as long as they're not anonymous. Something like OpenID allows a reasonable degree of interoperability for people to identify themselves when commenting, and it looks like you can set this up with Wordpress fairly easily. I googled this, for example: http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/ I can’t think of too many advantages of allowing unmoderated comments, compared to the benefits of screening, so I would definitely lean towards screening.

You’re missing an in-between solution though, which is allowing unmoderated comments as long as they’re not anonymous. Something like OpenID allows a reasonable degree of interoperability for people to identify themselves when commenting, and it looks like you can set this up with Wordpress fairly easily. I googled this, for example: http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

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