There must be robots or spiders sweeping the blogosphere to find places where gross entries can be made in unguarded comment sections.
I’m ending my short experiment with unreviewed comments after about 100 spam comments, mostly offering various sexually-oriented items or services. A few are obviously just trying to create more links back to some commercial enterprise.
Going forward, you still will not have to register in order to comment. But I’ll review comments before they appear. After you’ve submitted a comment that gets my approval, your subsequent comments will be allowed to appear immediately.
It’s a reasonable compromise, still offering anonymity for those who need it.
To be clear–when the comment form opens up, you’re asked for your name and email, but this information is purely voluntary. Your comment will be accepted for posting even if you don’t fill it out.
Onwards and uppards.
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Hello, Ian, been a while. Just want to get validated now so I can post comments later. Check out Dean Starkman’s Columbia Journalism Review column on the layoff process at Gannett’s Westchester County (N.Y.) paper. Mike Fisch, former publisher of the Advertiser is publisher there.
Uppards?
My own very modest blogsite gets something like 20-30 spams a day, almost all with Russian return addresses.