Just remember folks, that the Great and Powerful Google, who publicly pledge “Do No Evil”, provides the entire incentive for spammer’s activity.

So, as you waste time moderating comments, trying to get captchas or other tools working, or just give up in desperation, that perhaps the Great Google Minds could come up with a scheme that would punish forever a bestiality site that inserts links to itself in some poor educators blog. That is evil in my book.

Someone really needs to start a public campaign and remind them that in its current practice– Google Rewards Evil.

Problem – I think – is that as spam got ever more prevalent the systems developers added more layers of security to the extent that teh system is broken.

Am talking with them about how to solve it……

NB for those curious the system is called Knotes and runs in Plone.

In the spirit of holidays, and general aiming to give folks a chance, I’ll give some slack to Graham Atwell and maybe he will attend to his comment issues.

That said, never underestimate the cost to users of web sites if for whatever valid reasons, you make them jump hurdles to participate.

Cheers!

It’s also worth noting that the permalink to his later post – ‘More on Second Life – Convince Me’ returns an error, so we can’t even link directly to it.

Alan, you say ‘This high level non-functionality of the blog is surely a way to non-promote the product, eh?.’ It’s also a way to give the impression that an open dialogue is not sought.

This high level non-functionality of the blog is surely a way to non-promote the product, eh?

I consider it a tattered badge of honor, and I know plenty of others who make my spam load seem like minuscule muse turds.