Since Akismet does a pretty good job controlling comment spam (it misses one or two every now and then) and I haven’t had any problems recently with abusive comments, I’ve removed comment moderation. That means that as long as you provide your name and email address, I don’t have to approve your comment for it to appear. Of course, I can always go back and delete your comment. Remember, I’m the dictator around this here blog.
So enjoy your new earned powers my little minions and leave as many comments about the Yoplait Whips! Chocolate Mousse Style Yogurt* as your heart desires.
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* Even after posting it in February, the Yoplait Mousse post still receives comments from people whom I don’t know. I’m a little suspicious by the overly positive comments (“I enjoyed every spoonful”) and wonder if Yoplait is gaming my comments. How anyone could enjoy every spoonful of this stuff is beyond me. I still shudder when I see it in the dairy aisle at Safeway.
I had a wave of spam comments (never had those before) – they would actually almost make sense, but the URL provided would have names of certain medications embedded. I almost named the medications here but then figured I would be helping advertize them!
So now I am asking people who are posting a comment to provide _my_ name. If they don’t know what my name is, they aren’t human.
We’ll see how long it works.
Oh yeah, and I posted the rest of pictures from Cape Town – finally! :)
Akismet is great! Here’s my experience: “Akismet has caught 7,200 spam for you since you installed it.”
The Live Spam Zeitgeist is pretty cool:
http://akismet.com/stats/