Comments on: Comment Spam and Blog Content: Tradeoffs http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/30/comment-spam-and-blog-content-tradeoffs/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:06:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Amy Gahran http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/30/comment-spam-and-blog-content-tradeoffs/#comment-172 Amy Gahran Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2004/01/30/comment-spam-and-blog-content-tradeoffs#comment-172 Good point, Simon. Indeed, if dealing with comment spam becomes very onerous for me, then I would probably strip out all links from comments to my blog (provided there's an easy way to do that in Movable Type, which I use) before I would disable comments entirely. - Amy Gahran Editor, CONTENTIOUS Good point, Simon. Indeed, if dealing with comment spam becomes very onerous for me, then I would probably strip out all links from comments to my blog (provided there’s an easy way to do that in Movable Type, which I use) before I would disable comments entirely.

- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS

]]> By: Simon Willison http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/30/comment-spam-and-blog-content-tradeoffs/#comment-173 Simon Willison Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2004/01/30/comment-spam-and-blog-content-tradeoffs#comment-173 That's the exact kind of scenario in which I would advocate stripping ALL links from your comments. If the choice is between dropping comment support entirely or banning links from comments the latter is definitely preferable, no matter how draconian it may seem. That’s the exact kind of scenario in which I would advocate stripping ALL links from your comments. If the choice is between dropping comment support entirely or banning links from comments the latter is definitely preferable, no matter how draconian it may seem.

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