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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Keeping Comments Clean


Blogger has several built-in measures for dealing with comment spam and other associated dastardly behaviour.

  1. Only five html tags are accepted:
    <a> (for making links)
    <strong> and <b> (for making text bold)
    <em> and <i> (for making text italicised)
  2. All links will automagically use the rel="nofollow" tag, so they will receive noPageRank boost.
  3. You can choose to receive notification by email when new comments have been posted on your blog. This way, you can monitor them for spam and delete themwhen necessary.
  4. You can enable word verification for your comments. This will require an extra step in the commenting process, which will deter automated comment spamming systems.
  5. You can enable comment moderation, which will let you view new comments and approve or reject them before they appear on your blog.

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