Comment spam has increased to the point where I've reluctantly had to disable allowing unregistered readers to post comments for submission. I'm spending too much time cleaning it up as well as trackback spam. I am also disabling trackbacks. This is a shame as it undermines the connectivity that blogs are supposed to foster. You can still post comments by getting a Typekey, which is free and very straight-forward. Instructions can be found on the comment posting form.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at February 14, 2005 08:41 AMOuch, the lack of trackback is very unfortunate..
Are you running the "nofollow" tag recently introduced by msn/google/yahoo?
Posted by: blaze ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 14, 2005 10:12 AM
Mitch, I highly recommend the MTCloseComments plugin. It's a simple remedy that seems to cut most of the comment spam problem down to size. I manually close trackbacks because there doesn't seem to be a MTCloseTrackbacks plugin but the comment problem was the most sever. More info at my weblog post on the topic http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007394.html
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler at February 14, 2005 09:16 PM