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Keeping the Comment Section Clean

Saturday, May 30, 2009 by P.J. Hinton
Tonight, New York Times economics editor Catherine Rampell had a great blog post pointing to a comic that depicted what an academic journal might look like if it had a comments section, a la a news site or a blog.  If you have ever had the joy of reading academic research papers and spam laden comment sections on websites, then you'll probably laugh as much as I did.

Granted, our software might not be able to completely stop comment spammers from trying to put off topic or inappropriate comments on your blog, but because our application gives you final say of whether the submitted comment goes live, the inappropriate content never sees the light of day.

Moreover, we automatically attach rel nofollow attributes to hyperlinks so that others sites don't feed off of your page rank.


Comments for Keeping the Comment Section Clean

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by Sherrie Mersdorf:
Our blog gets spammed too, but I think there's something to be said for the value of having live comments get posted - it allows the conversation to continue (quickly) without the delay of approval (sometimes it takes hours or days if our admin is OOO for some reason). It would be great if Compendium created some kind of Comment Spam Filter so clients could choose to post comments immediately if they passed through the Spam Filter. Then obviously give the option to remove a comment if it slips through, or approve comments that get stopped.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by P.J. Hinton:
Sherrie, thanks for offering the feedback. Customer input has a significant role in shaping our future development directions. I have passed along your comment to our product support team because they track incoming requests such as this.

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