Comment Spam
Yup, like any other blog this blog was the target of comment spam, had about 40 bogus comments over the last week.
I’ve made it useless to do so now by automatically tagging every link in a comment with a “nofollow” property, so that it won’t improve your page-ranking on searchmachines.
I’ve also added a plugin to do “hashcash”, meaning your browser has to do some work before it can post a comment. Normal users shouldn’t notice a thing. Let me know if it breaks anything.
Why am I not using CAPTCHA you ask? Well, for one thing it’s not very reliable, and second, it is not very friendly to visually disabled surfers.