Words from Six Apart

Comment Spam We’ve all seen that comment spam is becoming a serious problem. Particularly on Movable Type weblogs, where the generated pages are all very similar in structure and semantics, spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google. Even more frustrating than the spamming problem is the fact that there isn’t a simple solution that will work for everyone and that all options have their own sets of pros and cons. During the past couple of months, we’ve been throwing around ideas at Six Apart about the best ways to combat spammers. Readers of your weblog must register before posting to your weblog. Before someone can post a comment to your weblog, they must register with your site. For many webloggers, this solution is not ideal. Informal