New Blogger Comment Sytem = More Spam ?

[piniyini]

I've just noticed the new blogger comment sytem

more over at http://preview.blogger.trakhelp.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1082

and I think it will attract more comment spam. Before when you selected 'anyone can post' only two options were shown; 'Anonymous' and your username.

Now there is an option to sign in to blogger, post anonymously, or post as anyone where you can enter your name and a website address. The name is then linked to the website in the comments section, and therefore in my opinion provide easier exposure to spammers.

What do you all think?

[crew]

It's possible that the name links will use rel=nofollow by default. Also, since you have to sign in to post with a name link, blogger could delete accounts guilty of automated comment spamming.

I appreciate the ability to leave a real link back to my site when I post a comments, so I hope they just rely on the second option.

[Lever]

I had exactly the same thoughts, piniyini, and yet I don't see any rel=nofollow in the source...

It seems strange that blogger have themselves used a number of systems to combat comment spam and then they do this. If it does allow linkage then it's a puzzling development :confused: All will become apparent soon...

Nice goat BTW ;)

[piniyini]

I was thinking maybe we should do what blogger does, add the following to a link

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www. url goes here

that appears in the comment section - easily done by editing the blogger template.

I dont see no rel="nofollow" to the link tag either, maybe someone should send them an email and hear what they have to say?

// off topic
I've got plenty more where they came from (that one was taken while I was on a motorbike that's why its slanted). I've been meaning to put some pictures up on my blog since I got back but can never find the time, couldnt get gallery.sf.net to work either because my host has disable the exec() command so thats a bummer.