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By: monkeyleader

monkeyleader — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:04:49 +0000

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By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:10:28 +0000

I think you have to let the blog owner define a threshold for comments and a commenting policy. It’s the only way you control the unwanted noise–make things to easy to say and you could fill pages of comments with spam about everything under the sun. When that happens, you turn away comments.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:57:15 +0000

Sorry – Damien.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:56:34 +0000

I have now changed the settings on my Thinking Home Business blog – there is still a CAPTCHA box to fill in for anynomous comments and all comments are moderated, as is evidently your practice here. Thanks for stirring me to change, Damian

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:53:26 +0000

Thanks for the comments and the links. By the way, Australia is no better on the biz blogging, as I have written a couple of times, e.g. on http://www.businessblogconsulting.com

As a temporary next best thing Damian, your post as above is now in the trackback attachment to the post in question. Bernie has a point about spam and when I opened up the system a while ago I got bombarded with the texasholdemsexfantasyyadayadayada spam. BlogHarbor has now introduced a way to make it easier for people to leave comments without opening the door to the spammers, so it may well be that I haven’t got the settings right. I understand the frustration, but it’s a real issue and as Bernie points out some of the pro bloggers have closed down comments. I would hate to do that.

And Paul, while I acknowledge your right to be satirical, I do not harvest the names for some nefarious marketing purposes.

Bernie, I will see if I can find out what happened when you posted a comment.

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:04:26 +0000

I’d be curious to compare your blog traffic with Des Walsh’s because above 1000 visitors a day and you start to get bots that plague your comments section. Invoking a registration process helps. Get more than 10,000 visitors a day and you need to moderate comments or kill them totally like Russ Beattie has done. Adam Curry has a 10,000 daily throughput and his comment area is bagged full of spammy sentences. So I can see why Des Walsh invokes registration. That said, even after I registered and posted a comment, it did not appear so something is wonky with the system on several levels.

By: Paul Browne

Paul Browne — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:41:45 +0000

ZDnet Blogs are another example of where you have to give your Grandmothers middle name in order to leave a comment. They then use your email for ‘Promotional Marketing Activites’. At least in this case , as an Old Media Company dipping it’s toe in the Blogospere, it could be that ZDNet is just learning the ropes.