<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Simple. Don't allow commentators unless they log in and their account<br>
is approved by you.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>I would add my suggestion for WordPress as well. It's damn easy and simple to start, and if you want to complicate it later, you can.<br><br>I would also agree with Jim Kinney about the spamming: my blog has relatively unique keywords that rank it high up when they are searched, and as such I get a lot of comment spam attempts. I don't require a full registration like Jim, but I find that as long as I require an email and name field to be specified, as well as the setting "Comment author must have a previously approved comment", I don't have any problems with spam on my blog either. Multiple methods for the same result.<br>
<br>Updates do happen often, but are painless unless you altered the actual WordPress files. If all you have altered are the themes, no problems.<br><br><br>Brian<br>