An Army of 1 in 10

I feel I must apologize to you guys. I really did not want to require registration to post comments, but the site has been getting hit hard by spammers over the past couple of months. The Akismet plugin catches the vast majority of spam comments (I’ve got 293 in my Akismet queue already, after having cleared it yesterday), but many do manage to slip past it and into moderation.

Fortunately none have made it past moderation, but the fact that 112 notifications have made it into my email inbox today (that’s average) tells me that I need to take it a step further to protect the site from spammers. Therefore, in order to comment, you must now have a registered username. I’m going to look into implementing OpenID on the site so you don’t have to register here if you’ve already registered an OpenID username. This policy is effective immediately.