New policy about comments
Starting today, if you want to post a comment on this blog, you’ll have to register before. I hope this will not prevent you to put comments here.
When I started this blog, I accepted all comments. Then, because of a few spamming comments, I decided to approve them before publication. But now, the software agents (bots) used by sites selling magical pills, gambling activities or pornography are leaving between 60 and 80 messages per day here, and it’s a waste of time to delete all these useless comments.
With this registration process, which will only be activated when you want to post your first comment, these bots will no longer be able to leave spamming messages.
On another note, and it’s a coincidence, I was forced to completely disable comments on my tech-related blog, Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends, after a deliberated attack. Two days ago, an unknown attacker used a script for automatically post 5 500 comments and trackback links on one of my notes — probably because it has been selected by Slashdot.
For more information about this attack and why I had to disable comments on this other blog, please read “Comments Are No Longer Accepted Here.”
