protection

2 questions:

1. how do you protect a blog against random spam comments?

2. how nerdy of a question is that?

Comments

[Colleen Wainwright]

Ha ha!

You have been touched by the Nerd Wand! (And may I pause here to say...eeeeeewwwwwwww!)

TypePad isn't the best at stopping spam, but they have a few options. Best (from their site) are:

Turn on Comment Authentication with TypeKey.

Turn on Comment and TrackBack Moderation. (You have to approve all comments)

Require unauthenticated commenters to validate with a CAPTCHA. (Anyone w/o TypeKey has to fill out the word thing)

Close comments and TrackBacks on older entries.

You access the settings via:

Weblogs > Edit Configuration > Feedback

Nerd.

[M-j]

Usually you have to turn on that little thingy where we have to type random funky codes that are all swirly and different colors and difficult to read. Or, what the person before me said.

[Neil]

Idiots whom spam just suck.

[James Cooper]

I know that for Wordpress blogs there are a number of nifty plugins that help greatly but I'm not overly familiar with Typepad so I'll just second what communicatrix said.

[golfwidow]

The fact that you had to ask meant that you weren't a nerd before. The fact that you have gotten the answer means that you are one now.

You say nerd like it's bad.

[:: jozjozjoz.com ::]

I left MT because of the spam problem. But I still have it with WP.

[kroif]

1. Write a crappy blog so little computer people won’t visit.
2. Silly, Nerd, keep us smiling...and dreaming...and crying...and laughing.

[annie]

thanks guys. nerd mission accomplished.

[nashira]

Jesus (favorite), does that means you're gonna be writing nerdie-like, like nerdie WWdN? Just say so. So I can, you know, not read.

:p

[cryssyer]

w00t! Annie is a nerdy geek gyrl now!!!! Hawesome!

*beep*
*boppidy*

Somewhere in the universe, Ewoks are celebrating with their capes...