Technically Speaking

Since I switched to WordPress as the back-end software for my blog, I’ve required users to log in before they could leave comments on my blog. The reason for this was simple: Spammers won’t create an account, and if they do, they are easy to deal with–I can just delete their account.

However, whenever I find a blog that I would comment on but that requires registration, almost invariably I just give up and don’t bother creating an account. I realized that there are probably readers of Technically Speaking that would comment if they didn’t have to register for an account.

Therefore, I’m announcing a policy change today. You are no longer required to have an account with Technically Speaking in order to post a comment. In an effort to catch spam, I’ve installed two separate spam-fighting programs on the blog: Spam Karma 2 and bad behavior. Hopefully that between these programs and me we can keep comment spam down to a minimum. If however, we find that there are too many spam comments making it through, I reserve the right to re-enable the restriction that only allows registered users to post comments. But I hope that won’t be necessary.

In the mean time, happy commenting.

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