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Bloggers - Don't Make It Difficult

Thursday, 13 December 2007

If you run a blog and you enable comments, please don't lock the comment form behind a user login. I've come across a few recently where comments are enabled but I'd have to sign up to comment.

That's a sure fire way to make me not comment, and probably not return as sometimes the comments are as interesting / more intersting than the blog post itself.
 
I understand there's a stupid amount of spamming on the web but there are plugins to counteract all that. A login makes it easier for you to ban a user, but also makes it difficult for "day trippers" to leave their opinions.

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Joff

I fell foul of this when I first started my blog. As I never commented on my own posts it wasn't something I'd thought about!

Written on Thursday 13 December 2007 at 11:02:16 GMT (Permalink)

gadget

I agree, however, I get quite a bit of spam due to doing that. Askinet catches it but it's still a pain to have to delete it.

Written on Thursday 13 December 2007 at 11:46:48 GMT (Permalink)

Ashley

I completely agree with you on this one.

I can almost categorically say that i never register on a blog to leave a comment.

Written on Thursday 03 January 2008 at 11:36:35 GMT (Permalink)











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