We’ve made some adjustments to how this blog reacts to and handles spam, so as a test, I have disabled the requirement to register for comments. Please feel free to make comments so we can see how it works.
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I’ll be interested to see how this experiment works out. So far, it just looks like there is more spam coming in to be blocked, since no one is leaving comments.
After a week, we’ve about 18 forum spam messages which were blocked by the new system, and several legitimate responses. I think we’ll keep it this way until it stops working.
Basically, we finally got a working API key, so that we could enable Askimet. Since this new process has started we’ve blocked 96 spam messages, and only a handful of legitimate messages. It’s hard to tell though what’s spam and what isn’t.