BeigeJournal

I’ve disabled comments on this blog after getting hit with twenty megabytes of comments spam. Much of this blog is either linked-to or cross-posted to my Livejournal, which seems to be free of comment spam problems. There are a great many Livejournal users, and there must be some comments spam in the system somewhere, but I’ve never seen any. There are several options that Livejournal users can select for comments, but allowing anyone with a Livejournal account to comment screening all comments from others seems to result in no problems from Livejournal users and no attempted spam from nonusers, either. Flickr requires would-be commenters to register for an account, too, and is also as far as I’ve seen free of comment spam. Asking people to register to comment doesn’t seem ideal, but it does seem to work, at least for large services like Livejournal or Flickr with millions of users. I don’t think that each and every individual blog could require separate registrations.

I have an e-mail address for comments, blogcomments@mspland.com. I’ll add any good comments to the posts.