Protecting your blog from comment spam with Askimet

Protecting your blog from comment spam with Askimet

1 Comment 08 February 2006

You wont believe the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting. Found Askimet to protect this WordPress 2.0.1 blog from comment spam. Had to create a blog at wordpress.com to get the Askimet API key. It’s a blog for people who had to do the same.

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Michael Z.
I’m very, very impressed that this sort of work is being done; Web Design is getting stagnant with people using just styled
block-level elements to produce artwork. The incorporation of SVG into sites excites me a lot.
How long do you expect it will take for this sort of technology to be widespread?
Obviously you can only speak about WebKit realistically, but if it’s going to take ten years for IE Win to gain (full) support,
we can’t design with it.
I’m amused by the “Becoming more important” line in the first paragraph. This has been a HUGE problem for years -
ever since HTML-2.0 was introduced to be more of a layout language and less of a markup language. For an example,
you just have to look at this site.Ã‚Â SPAM COMMENT URL.Ã‚Â Why is all the text
crammed over on the left side of the page with a big blank space on the right side?
Why is the default font tiny and unreadable? Fortunately most browsers now let you override the latter problem.
Hi Michael, Nice Try – rafiq