May 28, 2007
No more authentication... for now
I've wondered whether my lack of feedback is from a lack of visitors or the fact that it requires authentication with Typekey. On top of that, it doesn't work in Safari for some reason, and I loathe using Firefox's gimpy form to reply to the few comments I get. (You know who you are; thank you!) Anyway, whatever, I've disabled it and have added two plug-ins to defeat spam. You'll notice a little question at the bottom now. Comments are now disabled on posts older than 10 days. Thank you.
Now to see whether this affects my gigantic number of "unique visitors" who are dragging down my visit time stats. Wanna bet they're 90% spam? Who the heck hits the search button 10 times and for what purpose?
Update May 30
Erika: 1; spammers: 0.
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I am a communication designer in Vancouver, BC. Most of my writing and community activism are in the interconnected issues of public transit, local eating and food security, politics, health, environment, and sustainability in general. At heart, I'm a geek and a total treehugger. Nature, tea, good food and great company make me happy.
Currently reading:
"Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life"
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Comments (4)
Let’s see how this works… I remember trying the TypeKey thing before and didn’t like it. I’m interested in how your spam plug-ings and comment disabling feature are going to work. Cute, I see I have to know how to add. :-)
Oh, it definitely works! I’ve had lots of attempted comments so far, so the little math question is great. I’ve set it so junk comments simply don’t get through. I had comments open for maybe an hour while I was troubleshooting something, and got 6 spams to this one and 1 to AfterTASTE. None anymore! But I’m still getting lots of multiple search submits from different spammy IPs.
Yeah, the typekey thing was awkward. I happened to have an ID previously so I could leave comments on Wil Wheatons’ blog (I’m such a geek), but I frequently was forgetting my ID (we have so many ones afterall).
Yeah. I didn’t ever forget it, but the “keep me signed in for 2 weeks” thing is a nuisance. It was hard enough getting the damn thing to function, period! You were the only one still commenting :\