Comments on: On free and open blog posts: this post is free http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/on-free-and-open-blog-posts-this-post-is-free Blog by Shlomi Noach Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shlomi http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/on-free-and-open-blog-posts-this-post-is-free/comment-page-1#comment-5069 shlomi Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:16:40 +0000 http://code.openark.org/blog/?p=1225#comment-5069 @Giuseppe, Thanks a lot! Regarding you two additional points: Ouch! I fail them both! Will update my theme... @Bjorn, Askimet is not foolproof. I do manual moderation on comments and get a lot of spam even with Askimet turned on. May I suggest reading Baron Schwartz' <a href="http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/" rel="nofollow">couple</a> of <a href="http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/" rel="nofollow">posts</a> on this? @Giuseppe,

Thanks a lot!
Regarding you two additional points: Ouch! I fail them both!
Will update my theme...

@Bjorn,
Askimet is not foolproof. I do manual moderation on comments and get a lot of spam even with Askimet turned on.
May I suggest reading Baron Schwartz' couple of posts on this?

]]> By: Bjorn http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/on-free-and-open-blog-posts-this-post-is-free/comment-page-1#comment-5068 Bjorn Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:12:14 +0000 http://code.openark.org/blog/?p=1225#comment-5068 Agreed. If you do want comments on your blog, please let anyone participate without registration. I'd say AKISMET is the best way to fight spam, very effective and user-friendly. Its a simple web service which tells if a comment is spam or not based on some rules and (I think) an internal database. It's part of wordpress but you can also use it standalone. Agreed. If you do want comments on your blog, please let anyone participate without registration.

I'd say AKISMET is the best way to fight spam, very effective and user-friendly. Its a simple web service which tells if a comment is spam or not based on some rules and (I think) an internal database. It's part of wordpress but you can also use it standalone.

]]> By: Giuseppe Maxia http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/on-free-and-open-blog-posts-this-post-is-free/comment-page-1#comment-5067 Giuseppe Maxia Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:09:18 +0000 http://code.openark.org/blog/?p=1225#comment-5067 Hi Shlomi, Thanks for your feedback. While we don't have powers on the openness of comments, we can indeed check on the openness of contents. Most of the problems with open contents come from wrong feeds, which happen because a feed was changed and not properly checked after submission. So what can appear at first sight evil to the readers is often just a simple mistake. I have done some controlled censorship(*) by removing the offending feeds and told the authors to submit a better one. Hopefully, this will result in better satisfaction for Planet MySQL readers. If I may add my own list to your Cahiers de doléances, I have two of my own: * No indication of what format is accepted (HTML? which tags? CR conversion?) so I am often shooting in the dark when commenting. * No preview for comments, which, paired with the previous item, leads to some embarrassing posts. Cheers Giuseppe (*) Hey! it's a joke! We don't do censorship Hi Shlomi,
Thanks for your feedback.
While we don't have powers on the openness of comments, we can indeed check on the openness of contents.
Most of the problems with open contents come from wrong feeds, which happen because a feed was changed and not properly checked after submission. So what can appear at first sight evil to the readers is often just a simple mistake.
I have done some controlled censorship(*) by removing the offending feeds and told the authors to submit a better one.
Hopefully, this will result in better satisfaction for Planet MySQL readers.

If I may add my own list to your Cahiers de doléances, I have two of my own:
* No indication of what format is accepted (HTML? which tags? CR conversion?) so I am often shooting in the dark when commenting.
* No preview for comments, which, paired with the previous item, leads to some embarrassing posts.

Cheers

Giuseppe

(*) Hey! it's a joke! We don't do censorship

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