« Testing going on, ignore blog until next entry | Main | Melissa Danced »

Well, I finally have had enough and enabled comment registration on the site here. Honestly, I'd have rather not, and for a number of reasons, one of them being that unlike some people, I get the value in the anonymous comment.

Alas, so do spammers.

It finally came down to which do I hate more, registration, or captcha. Captcha lost. I hate that shit, mostly because I regularly cannot see it right. Brain wired wrong I suppose.

Since this site runs off of Movable Type, it's no surprise I'm using TypeKey for my registration framework. There are other methods, but those all showed to be more painful than they're worth to implement. If I'm going to be causing annoyance, and that's really what this is, then I'm going to do it in the least annoying way possible for me.

TypeKey's about as annoying as any registration system, however, some points:

1. I don't care what name you use, and from what I can tell, neither does TypeKey. Create a pseudonym, and stay anonymous


2. There's the standard "reply to the email" thing to register. It's a pita, but so's spam and me deleting comments accidently.


3. There's a continue link at the end of the registration process that should take you back to the original comment screen. It doesn't appear to work, and that's probably something I did. For now, you'll have to go back to the entry manually.


4. Since, (in theory), I only have to "trust" a commenter once, once you're in, there should be an end to getting moderated. This should allow me to up the number of links in a message so that people don't get modded because they link to their own site.

<ed> Thanks to Chuck Goolsbee for pointing out my comment preview was fubar'd. It's still ugly, but it should be working.

Comments