WordPress Mess...Need Some Opinions
that looks harmless but is really just useless crap.
Because of spam problems and because my blog gets a decent amount of
traffic, I have disabled comments. I just couldn't be bothered with the
nonsense. Akismet took care of the obvious stuff but missed a lot of the
not so obvious.
But because I realize that "useful" comments are important to a blog's
popularity, I am now confronted with a tough decision and I honestly don't
know what to do.
For one thing, with the recent WordPress upgrade (2.8.3) my Akismet
plugin, for some reason, has been deactivated. I don't know why and I'm
hesitant to reactivate it. It doesn't say a new version is available and
yet it's inactive, so this has me quite puzzled.
So, here are my questions.
First of all, is there a better spam plugin than Akismet that works with
2.8.3 that won't give me any problems? If so, I'll consider using it.
But here is the bigger question.
If I open up my blog to comments, I know I'm going to get hammered with
them, especially with some of the controversial stuff I write about.
Is there a way to moderate these quickly or am I going to ultimately be
a slave to my PC again?
If there is an easy way to do this, I will.
If not, I am thus stuck with my ultimate dilemma of deciding whether or
not it's worth opening up my blog to comments and the problems that
I know it's going to cause.
So I guess what I'm asking is this.
If you were in my place, already running a fairly successful business, and
don't really need the comments, what would you do?
Would you leave things as they are or would you activate comments?
I'm making a poll and will go with the majority on this because quite
honestly, I can't decide.
Thanks for your help.
Patricia Brucoli
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