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Let me be silly: go back to the nineties. Provide your email address as an image, receive the comments in your inbox, append the really interesting ones to you
by astrobe_ 9y ago
Let me be silly: go back to the nineties.
Provide your email address as an image, receive the comments in your inbox, append the really interesting ones to your blog article.
You really want to remove the spam and will have to do some moderation in order to keep your comments feed clean and interesting anyway. Making it a bit more difficult for your readers to comment has the advantageous effect that they'll think twice before writing. Moreover it also changes the way they write, because now they are addressing to a specific person instead of talking to everyone.
For sure it will probably drastically reduce the number of comments you get, but which one do you prefer: quantity or quality?
- CuriouslyC 9y agoPutting your email in an image is a hassle for the user. A better option is to wrap a link in javascript that "constructs" your email from an encoded string and sets the link's href to the appropriate mailto on hover. This is user friendly but incredibly hard to harvest in an automated fashion.
- bigbugbag 9y agoProvide a form so people can write to you without disclosing their email or even having one.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoAs a self hosted blogger who uses Jekyll to build the site, and Emacs to do email, that sounds like a workflow that would be easy to automate.