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January 08, 2007
Quiet in the Peanut Gallery
Or, rather, the SPAM gallery. Because over the last several days, after getting no spam at all for months, we got slammed with messages. We tried several different things, none of them worked. So we went with the next to last option, requiring Typekey comment authentication. (The last option being, of course, closing comments entirely.)
I hated to do this, because in my own personal experience, nothing makes you decide you don't want to comment on someone's blog more than having to sign in to do so. You feel excluded and unwanted. I've met some great people through my blog comments, and I worry that I'll never hear from them again, and that I'll also miss out on the new voices of readers who finally have something to say.
The really annoying part of all this is that I was the only person seeing the spam. Because I have to approve every message before it posts. In other words, all the fuckhead managed to do was to waste my time. His messages weren't even getting out to anybody. And yes, I know it's all automated and they don't actually do this stuff personally, blahblahblah. It was still a waste of time and bandwidth for nobody but him and me.
So I'm sorry you have to jump through a hoop to make your voice heard in my comments now. I wish there was some other solution. I guess you could hunt down the asshole who's got me on his list and run over his computer with your car. Then I can open comments back up. Even better, if you send me a picture of the spammer's tear-stained face as he views the ruins of his annoying and intrusive empire, I'll buy you dinner.
Posted by sally at January 8, 2007 10:52 AM
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