This is a very low-volume blog, as you can tell, and I could have gotten by with the free version, but I have several inactive authors whom I exhort periodically to become active, all in vain. But I might succeed one day, and then I'd have to worry about the author limit. I could have stayed put at MT 2.661, but I get comment SPAM, so I wanted the moderation feature.
Other than the new "Powered By" link, that's the only user visible change. The first time you post a comment, I will have to approve it before it shows up. Subsequent comments from you, after I have approved the first one, will appear on the site without moderation. All that applies unless you have a TypeKey account. TypeKey is a Passport-like authentication technology that gives you "single signon" for any blog or other site that implements it. I say "Passport-like," but TypeKey is missing an important Passport ingredient: Microsoft, and its long list of hidden agendas. The brouhaha over the MT license changes notwithstanding, I'd trust Six Apart over Microsoft any day.
Using moderation or authentication puts a barrier in the way of comment spammers getting what they want, which is search engine share. I still have to delete their excrement from the database, but at least they don't get lucky with a spider or two before I get around to flushing them.
Posted by hbo at May 15, 2004 06:34 PM