TypePad Battles Comment/Trackback Spam

TypePad is making significant improvements to address comment/TrackBack spam, including support for TypeKey-based comment authentication, moderated comments and TrackBacks and more.

Comments

[Connected]

Hi

Sorry about the triple trackback - I wasn't trying to spam! My posting system messed up.

Personally, I think I prefer the way blogware seem to be tackling the spam problem. They appear to be developing a system similar to the way Cloudmark deal with email spam, such that spam is dealt with automatically without any user intervention.

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/5/11/720224.html#283245

[Randy Charles Morin]

I just hope Typekey doesn't catch on. I'd hate to have to provide a key when posting comments. How many comments you think you'll get from my daughter (7 yrs old). She's capable of leaving comments, but systems like Typekey and Captcha's she doesn't understand.

[Anil]

TypeKey will be optional for commenting, but I think it's interesting how different people's expectations are for blog commenting vs. all the other activities that currently require (as in, not optional) authentication. Contributing to forums or bulletin boards, sending an instant message, even playing a lot of online games all require signing in. The only commonly used internet platform that *doesn't* require authentication at a technical level is email, and that's why spam is such an issue there. And even then, all the web-based email services require you to log in.

I wish we could go back to the days when all these things could be used without having to verify authentication, but the economics have probably changed too much for that to be the case again.