Enabling Open Comments for All | PF Blog Suggestion

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The discussion centers on the proposal to enable open comments for all visitors on the blog, rather than restricting comments to registered members. This approach aims to foster broader discussions and increase site traffic by allowing anyone to participate while reserving registration for blog contributors. However, concerns about spam are significant, as open commenting can lead to an influx of unwanted comments, as experienced by other blogs like Physics Post. Solutions like Akismet exist to combat spam, but there are hesitations about their effectiveness and compatibility with current systems. Ultimately, the balance between encouraging engagement and managing spam is a critical consideration for the blog's commenting strategy.
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Can (or 'should') we set it up so that anyone visiting the site can leave a comment rather than registered members only? And then perhaps reserve the registration feature to blog-contributors only. That way, we can have a hand-picked group of writers and we open up the discussions to everyone and hopefully generate some more excitement & traffic to the site.

Comments/discussions are key to the success of any blog and right now we have nothing there.
 
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Phobos said:
Can (or 'should') we set it up so that anyone visiting the site can leave a comment rather than registered members only? And then perhaps reserve the registration feature to blog-contributors only. That way, we can have a hand-picked group of writers and we open up the discussions to everyone and hopefully generate some more excitement & traffic to the site.

Comments/discussions are key to the success of any blog and right now we have nothing there.

Unfortunately blogging systems are heavily targeted by spammers. Physics Post has open commenting and it receives hundreds of spam comments a week and gotten to the point where a couple years ago I stopped looking, so now none get approved.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Unfortunately blogging systems are heavily targeted by spammers. Physics Post has open commenting and it receives hundreds of spam comments a week and gotten to the point where a couple years ago I stopped looking, so now none get approved.

There are of course excellent for fighting spam for a wordpress blog, including Akismet.
 
Mattara said:
There are of course excellent for fighting spam for a wordpress blog, including Akismet.

I've looked at that. Haven't updated to 2.0 which it requires. I'm nervous the latex hack won't work. Will continue to investigate.
 

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