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Comments Policy Changed Across Syntagma Media

Posted in Blogging, Blogosphere, Media, Publishing, Syntagma Media, Web 2.0 on April 26th, 2006
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Owing to the continuing avalanche of comment spam across the network, I’ve had to restrict comments on all of the blogs, some more than others.

The general policy will be that all commenters will have to have the first comment moderated. Of course, that won’t stop hand-rolled stuff getting through, but it should restrict the spam that comes totally from machines.

If even this gets too onerous, I may just shut comments down altogether.

Some say blogging is about conversation. That’s true. But you can’t talk to a machine.

We do have an email address prominently displayed. That’s far preferable to spending 1.5 hours a day picking through literally hundreds of comments linking back to dozens of seedy websites.

Blogging lite is better than blogging in a swamp.

6 Responses to “Comments Policy Changed Across Syntagma Media”

  1. I’m certainly no expert, but I have the Askimet spam thingy (see how UN-expert I am? LOL) turned on and it is doing very well - it must catch at least a dozen a day!

    By Marti on May 1st, 2006 at 3:44 pm

  2. Yeah, it’s a pain. We have literally hundreds a day. The new policy stops them getting through, so I’ll see how it goes.

    By John Evans on May 1st, 2006 at 3:46 pm

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