Sunday, May 26, 2013

No more Anonymous comments

As legitimate blog traffic has increased at Alpha Game, so has the spam.  Nearly all of it is posted as Anonymous; in the last two days I had to delete 163 Anonymous spam comments, 37 of which made it past Blogger's spam-trapping.  Because it is a waste of time reading each Anonymous comment to determine if it is spam or not, from now on, I am going to delete all Anonymous comments as spam.

This means typing your name in the comment will not avoid deletion. Note that being deleted as spam may have the result of making it harder for you to comment here and elsewhere as Blogger may blacklist your IP address.  This doesn't mean you have to register with any of the various options, but as a minimum, you will have to use a Name in the Name/URL when posting comments in the future.

12 comments:

mmaier2112 said...

Good.

Anonymous comments suck anyway. All they do it confuse the readers.

I just wish I could consolidate all my various web logins to make them all match...

Alan K said...

Like this, eh? Well, it's easy enough. Thought I needed to link to an account of some kind. So long, anonymous posts...

Rex Little said...

Certainly not objecting to your action, but every apam comment I've seen here had "My blog:" at the bottom, followed by a link. If you just deleted the comments fitting that description, without bothering to read the rest of the content, you'd be rid of the spam.

Of course there's no excuse for anonymous comments anyway, when one can just select Name/URL and type random letters in the name field.

Desert Cat said...

I know it limits the comments I get at my blog, but I turned on the login requirement for the same reason. Damn SEO spammers! Hate 'em! With a passion!

Effin' retards. Any self-respecting blogger won't let their crap stay. It must pay anyway, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

. said...

Say what you want about that Anonymous guy, he sure is prolific...

tbell said...

Lousy internet connections in Magnolia, Tx. I hope this goes through.

Zion's Paladin said...

Say what you want about that Anonymous guy, he sure is prolific...

And schizophrenic apparently.

Leap of a Beta said...

Good. I hate silently reading the comments sections when they're littered with Anons.

Retrenched said...

I understand your decision, but I'm gonna miss anonymous' insights, like "This blog is very great, I am happy to be discovering it. Much helpful but also good. Many thanks for the effort!"

Scribblenauts Unlimited free said...

Say what you want about that Anonymous guy, he sure is prolific...

And schizophrenic apparently.

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Unknown said...

Thought I needed to link to an account of some kind
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