Comments on: Case Study: BloggingTips and Comment Registrations

By: sponnateaxasp

sponnateaxasp — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:28:25 +0000

Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.

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By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:15:25 +0000

Ive not used that one. Im using Math Comment Spam Protection. The plugin which caused problems for me was 'Defensio Anti-Spam'.

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:09:44 +0000

@Kevin,

Thanks for weighing in. Spam-blocking problems do present difficulty for bloggers. We’ve had our share of problems here regarding comments getting blocked.

I would recommend trying WP SpamFree. It’s worked magically since I’ve installed it here.

By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:51:04 +0000

Sorry for the delay in replying to this article, I only found the post today

You did some good research on this. Unfortunately, due to some circumstances, some of this info you have is inaccurate.

Comments did decrease after I introduced a registration policy, probably by about 50%, maybe a little lower. I then tested out 3 or 4 spam blockers (wordpress plugins). I decided on two spam blockers and I removed the need for registration. I think I did this about a week and a half after introducing registration but I didn’t make an announcement about it so I’m not 100% sure. I usually only have to set about 2 or 3 comments to spam, before that it was crazy with spam being published every 30 mins.

However, these spam blockers dropped comments considerably and I wasn’t sure why. A few weeks later I was getting concerned about the lack of comments and I found that one of the spam blockers was stopping practically everything. I ended up going through hundreds of spam and non spam comments and I approved lots and lots of legitmate comments.

Spam is no longer a major problem at BloggingTips but it still gets a lot of spam from made for adsense sites and adult sites.

One things for sure, spammers create a lot of problems for blog owners.

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This was the Week that Was, Vol. 29 | Sephy's Platzish — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:11:20 +0000

[...] happens when you close comments to unregistered users? The number of comments goes down. However, there is always the possibility that the Holidays had something to do with the change as [...]

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:29 +0000

Full Time Blogger,

Do let us know what happens as a result of the change. Akismet will catch some, but not all unfortunately.

By: Full Time Blogger

Full Time Blogger — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:32:14 +0000

Interesting you should post about this today, I’ve just removed “Users must register to comment from my blog” forgot I’d turned the option on the first place really.

Not sure what effect it will have in the coming weeks, probably an increase in spam – but hoping Akismet can take care of mos tof that!!