The first change I’ve been waiting to implement here is opening comments to non-registrants. I may need to install a CAPTCHA to prevent spammers, however, a few are getting through by registering at this point anyway. Therefore, comments have now been opened to all without registering in advance, to see how it goes. At this time no CAPTCHA is installed, and I believe all links are automatically set to follow (I’m not sure if my current extensions set no-follow by default, but if they have, I will likely turn that off).
I’ve been looking at commenting plugins for Wordpress that extend functionality for linking to trusted commenters, that said, as far as I’m concerned, anyone who comments and doesn’t spam me at this point is trusted. So link me up here, I will follow your links.
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Stephen 01.12.09 at 10:01 pm
Is there a manor in where you, the owner, can keep the system open, but, you must validate each entry for each non-registered user post?
erica 01.12.09 at 10:12 pm
Yes, there are ways to avoid CAPTCHAs automatically or manually. I’m not actually sure how well Akismet does all by itself as yet, since I’ve never relied solely on it. Right now it’s caught all but 5 spammers all by itself, and the other 5 registered - it just kept them in a queue for me to approve or not.
Chances are when I upgrade Wordpress it’ll be taken care of within Wordperss/Akismet anyway.