Feel free to delete comments 2-3 as I was just testing Traceback. I don’t have moderation turned on. I use the spam filtering provided by wordpress (keyword based) and I changed the name of the wp-comments.php file to wp-nospam-comments.php and changed it in other places. There are other things one can do too — I did these because they were quick and easy and mentioned somewhere on the wordpress.org site as a the first things one should do to deal with spam. I still get hit every now and again — it happens about once a month and they come in a flurry, so it’s easy for me to just go in and delete them. I prefer this to moderation.

We do have moderating turned on on all three of these weblogs, and annoyingly, WordPress doesn’t provide any indication to the comment leaver that their comment has been queued for moderation. Hmph.

Am I correct in assuming that you’re not using moderating on Extended Abstract? Have you had trouble with spammers and the like?

And thanks for the n+1 pointer – an nice piece on what is indeed a very complex situation.

Are comments turned on? Or are you moderating…

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Marco Roth has written a very nice essay on Farenheit 9/11 and MM over at N+1. It’s worth a read if you have the chance.