How I stopped all comment spam in DominoBlog - Disqus
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Back in February 2010, I made the change to turn off the native commenting system inside of DominoBlog. While it was doing a great job of catching like 9% of everything, it was still dropping hundreds if not thousands of spam comments into the database itself. So I made a decision to investigate alternatives.
In my other blogs, I was already utilizing Disqus with great success. I soon realized it also gave me a slew of other benefits that were easily implemented:
- ability to comment registered (native, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID and more)
- ability to allow video comments
- ability to bring in tweets and pingbacks
- ability to allow such things as video comments
- ability to have users tweet their comments or share on Facebook brining more traffic back to the posting
You can subscribe to each comment section by email and the trackback URL is listed for each. Sorting of the comments is allowed by newest, most liked and more. This gives readers the ability to mark comments that are important, give answers or make good points.
So now I have a central management for all the blogs, no spam and a larger community built around it. You can get scripts, plug-ins for such things as Wordpress and other blog system to make implementaiton a breeze. Now, I am hoping for a migration tool to finish moving all past comments into Disqus as well. They support Wordpress import, so I need to get all past DominoBlog comments intot that format and we am set.
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On Monday, May 24th, 2010 by Chris Miller
