Switched from AuthImage to Akismet for spam protection

Monday February 13thBlog news Category

Most people didn’t like the way comments were handled with authimage and also the fact that I required a user to be logged in to comment… I have just removed authimage and adopted Akismet, let me know if this is any better!!

Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet

Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

9 Comments

  1. seoulfully
    February 13, 2006

    Here’s what I don’t understand. If I HAVE to register to comment, why do I have to input my name and email address again to comment? Is there anyway that I can either comment just from putting in my name and email OR not even have a comment option unless I’m logged in? (= hook it up!

  2. ayn
    February 13, 2006

    I never had to fill in the 3 boxes above the comment textarea myself… and, I think now you can comment without having to be logged in…

  3. Anonymous
    February 13, 2006

    test -ayn

  4. ayn
    February 13, 2006

    Just changed some settings, now you can do anonymous comments, we’ll see how well the spam filtering plugin works… :D

  5. ayn
    February 13, 2006

    test

  6. ayn
    February 13, 2006

    Now if you’re logged in you don’t have to fill up the name, email, and website…

  7. seoulfully
    February 13, 2006

    am i logged in? let’s see

  8. seoulfully
    February 13, 2006

    this is what i’m talking about…

  9. ayn
    February 13, 2006

    I see that seoulfully is happy at last!

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