There are no comment forms on the websites I run: too prone to grandstanding and nonsense, in addition to spam. The primary purpose of comments is to build buzz, and Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, etc, are better ways to accomplish that, without polluting your own site. (Disqus, I don't know... I recently saw spam comments lingering for weeks in a thread I participated in.) I've heard reports of humans being paid to post comment spam in China, Nigeria, etc. I've seen UNPAID INTERNS doing it LOCALLY, and I take every opportunity I get to speak out against the practice. Some of their employers are probably here in Hidden-Tech (and you should be ashamed of yourselves for making cynics out of cheerful 20-year-olds). Anyone know if UMass ever cracked down on this? -Tom On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at frugalfun.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > At 8:33 AM -0400 10/29/11, B. Kimo Lee wrote: >>Btw, if you're not already receiving comment spam on your blog, when >>you do, I'd suggest getting an Akismet account and installing the >>Akismet Wordpress plugin. I use the Akismet service on several >>Joomla client sites I maintain and it cut comment spam down to zero. > > I used to use Akismet and still do on some of my smaller sites--but > with Akismet, you still have to go in manually and deal with > releasing the false positives, flushing the spam, and unaccepting the > ones it let through.. Now I use Disqus or CommentLuv (different > sites), and I also set all my blog sites to refuse comments on posts > older than two weeks. I don't think any spam has gotten into my blog > with either of those systems, once my VA enabled the spam protection > in CommentLuv. > -- > > _________________________________________________ > Shel Horowitz - 413-586-2388/ shel at frugalfun.com > -->Join the Business Ethics Pledge - Ten Years to Change the World, > One Signature at a Time (please tell your friends) > <http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org> > Marketing consulting * copywriting * publishing assistance * speaking > How to market ethically/effectively: http://www.frugalmarketing.com > Ethics Blog: http://www.principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/ > Books: http://www.frugalmarketing.com/shop.html > _________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >