After reading some great posts on blogs this morning, I was ready to comment — to say thanks, good post, great video, etc. But each time I read, “You must be logged in to comment.”
This is one method of avoiding comment spam. After all, spambots and even manual spammers aren’t going through the extra complication of registering, confirming their email, etc. But neither are non-spammers.
Getting a dialog going is one of the most important ways of making your website more effective and useful to readers. If you put up a bunch of roadblocks, it just isn’t going to happen.
There are other ways of preventing spam. Open your site up, and you’ll be rewarded.