Please Leave a Comment… No Wait.
Why, why my fellow bloggers do you make it so hard for people to leave a fucking comment on your blog? Don’t tell me it’s the spam, that’s bullshit. There are too many tools out there to prevent spam without turning commenting into a fucking quest.
Leaving comments on blogs is sometimes more complex than getting your first girlfriend to let you touch her boobs. Seriously, it’s a fucking gauntlet. I don’t know about Blogger anymore because I dumped that lame software a few years back for the more upscale more solid WordPress and there are easy ways of moderating comments that make is simple for your visitors to leave comments also.
Because here’s the deal folks and I’m not the only one who feels like this. If I have to register to leave a comment, I won’t register and will never leave a comment. Because I can’t be bothered to remember so many users and passwords to so many sites (even if I use a master user/password) plus I can’t be bothered to login everytime my cookie expires. It’s fucking annoying. So save us the “my blog is so swamped with trolls” bullshit because it’s not. Not enough anyway. I have a spam detector that does its work and once in a while I hit the DELETE button. The rest of the moderation is easily managed.
There’s only one acceptable way to make a comment entry acceptable for everyday users, a name field, an email field, a website field and a comment field. A captcha if you want, that’s acceptable and the Follow checkbox is always cool. Anything else if fucking retarted.
Web 2.0 is supposed to be user-friendly.
Yep, me too thinks that… Registering to leave comments isn’t fun.
Amen!
“…getting your first girlfriend to let her touch her boobs.”
I think she did that the moment she saw “bumps” growing around her nipples.
I guess for some women that never happens…
But you get my point
OK how about this: I’ll leave comments on blogs and you find me a girlfriend who’s cool with boob-touchage.
Hey, you don’t need to register for mine: it’s just my fucking wordpress that bugs with Firefox for no apparent reason! (still haven’t found the damn shitty bug…I have NO clue :’( )
It wasn’t directed at you Sek
Fiou!
But I understand the feeling about having to register on a blog. I find it stupid too.
Normally, a good ol’ Akismet and the admin having to accept the first comment of a user will normally do a good job against spams and idiots. I don’t understand this “register” thing…
Since you were kind enough not to make us go through more security than it takes to get on an airplane these days, I thought I’d show my support and leave a comment.
@Fagstein. At our age, if the GF isn’t cool with, there are issues.
@Sek. I well understand the difference between coding mishaps and just plain bad security planning.
@Megan. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
@Chad Ol’ Faithful. Always there to point out my typos
Is this thing on?
yeah its on.
Maybe I don’t like comments.
@Jason. You LOVE comments. It’s your bread and butter
I’m going through your method but I’m still getting some spams. What spam detector are you using? Maybe I should chuck my current one and try yours.
And yeah, it was fighting the Israeli army to get my first girlfriend to let me touch her boobs. But I was in heaven afterward.
I use Akismet, it’s built in to WordPress and it works great. It’s not 100% but nothing ever is.