Comment Spamalot from Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent talks about the issues of MT comment spam on MT owners and hosting companies.

I'm curious about Typekey. I'd like to think but I'm really not convinced that a centralised identity system will help stop spam in the long term. And as I like the idea of decentralised identity systems, I'm even less sure about that. My experience with yahoogroups is that people will sign up to Yahoo with a temporary account, join a group that requires moderated entry, wait for approval and then spam the group. This does not bode well for any system, no matter how many layers of indirection there are, where the entry requirements can potentially be automated. And we haven't yet found a good way of enforcing manual involvement from real people.

As for Typepad, I'd encourage SixApart to work with SXIP as an alternate as soon as possible. As we have more and more identity verification systems, the pain of signing up repeatedly to each one is becoming too much. In this case, I'm not a user of SixApart products so why should I have to sign up to their identity system just so I can comment? I've already got a passport, yahoo account, blogger account, numerous Drupal system accounts, Slashdot, kuro5hin and on and on. Surely one of those would do?


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