{"id":7260,"date":"2005-04-13T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/13\/the-comment-registration-act-of-2005.html"},"modified":"2005-04-13T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:19:58","slug":"the_comment_reg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/13\/the_comment_reg.html","title":{"rendered":"The Comment Registration Act of 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dammit. Another burst of comment spam today. Nothing that showed up on the front page, but because the URL was innocuous (which is a bad sign of spammers getting smarter), MT-Blacklist didn’t block them outright, but instead threw them into Moderation due to the comments going against an old post. Which is better than nothing by a long shot, but hardly ideal (since it means I still have to clean out the bad comments, and there’s still the risk of some of it coming through if it updates a recent post).<\/p>\n

(MT-DSBL caught a goodly number of these, but by no means all of them.)<\/p>\n

So I’m going to be looking more seriously at added protection, either the SpamLookup<\/a> package announced the other day, or MT-Approval<\/a>, or both.<\/p>\n

Or, conversely (and most easily) I could turn on comment registration through TypeKey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay, let’s do a poll<\/a> on the latter.<\/p>\n

Comment registration<\/strong> would require a commenter to, before commenting the first time, register (name and password, and an e-mail to confirm it by) with TypeKey (there are other mechanisms, but this one’s already built into MT, and it’s free and straightforward). If the person already has a TypeKey account, no registration would be needed.<\/p>\n

Thereafter, when you went to comment on something here, you’d need to (through a simple on-screen mechanism) be signed into TypeKey. (it’s not clear whether this is a per-boot or per-browser-session or per-visit basis) before you could put in a comment.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reluctant to turn it on here because some folks dislike doing sign-ins of this sort. Others, no matter how anonymous the service is meant to be, cavil at registering in any fashion. But I’m inclined to give it a try because:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Comment registration is generally regarded as one of the most effective ways to block automated spamming techniques. While it’s possible that someone would create a TypeKey account and then spam through that, I’ve not heard of this happening on a widespread basis.\n
  2. It’s the easiest and simplest and least intrusive tool (for me) to put in. No plug-ins or hacks necessary.<\/p>\n
  3. I think it has the least burden on the host servers — determining the state of TypeKey sign-in should be trivial, and should cut off invocation of the comment module very quickly (unlike, say, MT-Blacklist, where the comment is fully entered and processed before its contents are parsed for blacklisted URLs and strings, or for age of the underlying post). I think this is the case, and, if so, that’s a big argument in favor, since I’m sensitive to host burden.<\/p>\n
  4. The burden on commenters is not significantly higher (once registered) than other accepted mechanisms (captchas, preview-then-approve), and, in fact, is lower for folks who comment on multiple posts.<\/ol>\n

    So, hit the poll (and, secondarily, the comments). If I get major push-back on registration, I’ll reconsider, but, failing that, I’ll likely implement it this weekend, at least as a test (it’s easy to turn back off, too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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