Moveable Type seems to have taken a very drastic step to thwart comment spam. I am really surprised they went this route, we dismissed this technique right off as it denies the linky goodness to legitimate comments. As Matt said, "they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
We’ve already put some comment spam prevention functionality into WordPress and we have a lot more ideas we’ll implement before we do something like this.
My own experience has been that with just the use of a blacklist, I’ve caught 95+% of my comment spam. This may not be scalable indefinitely, but I could always go to moderated comments or (in the future) a baysian filter or…
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Geof adds this Comment:
I’ve got a couple kvetch’s on the WP comment moderation system, but then it’s the only solution that I’m using, and well, it’s better than the old situation, and it’s a first-run idea.
January 15th, 2004 at 10:25 am
Alex adds this Comment:
I haven’t really used it yet (just did enough testing to find and fix a couple bugs). Please post your feedback in the forums, it is always good to hear how people are using/liking new features.
January 15th, 2004 at 10:35 am
Geof adds this Comment:
When I get semi-coherent, I’ll put up comments on the WP support forum.
January 15th, 2004 at 11:12 am
Clint Ecker adds this Comment:
I can’t seem to find Matt’s post, did he pull it?
January 15th, 2004 at 6:55 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
He said that to me in an IM chat after we saw the news. I expect he’ll post some thoughts as well.
January 15th, 2004 at 7:02 pm