Coming Home to a Deep Pile of…
Comment spam. If you don’t run a blog or online discussion group, you’ve probably never heard of them, but spam comments (fake comments submitted en masse and intended to send traffic to a splog or other money-making site) are a real danger for sites that want to encourage public discussion. I use the Akismet plug-in with my WordPress installation to screen out the spam, but that means that occasionally I’ll end up accidentally deleting a REAL comment. Other sites have required commentors to register or have turned off reader contributions entirely.
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