We'll still love you, Bill. :-)

See? That's what you get for prolific, insightful and witty writing. No good deed goes unpunished.

If you'd just toiled in obscurity like me, you wouldn't have any comment spam problems.

Registration of comments is the first step on a slippery slope to comment confiscation. ;)

Yeah, what Boyd said! Boo-hoo, poor Bill! The moonbats harass him, so he has to use TypeKey!

Meanwhile, some of us can't get even one troll of our own!

Heh. Thing is, it's not even a moonbat. It's some loser that keeps dropping links to a lame cartoon/porn site. Not to mention all the auto-spammers dropping cialas/porn/viagra/online poker links.

Hello! I just love your website, and appreciate all the wonderful informations it contains! Please click here for bestiality pix and granny sex.

Very funny. But how can I tell that the badger at your site is a grandma?

At least most folks are using the same registration service.

Hey Bill, I need some Cialas and Viagra, so my boyfriend will be of use when we watch porn. And I'm already registered.

See, you cannot stop us. ;)

Ah, I'm in. Thanks Bill. Sorry you had to adopt this but that's the way it is on the Wild Wild WWW.

Damn, typekey doesn't work very good in my RSS reader. Oh well, it's not like I have that many interesting things to say!

Well, this is quite the predicament.

My Mennonite heritage forbids me from taking the kind of oath that TypeKey requires.

But I think you're worth the chance of eternal damnation, Bill.

See you in Hell......

*sigh
You shudda seen it comin' Bill. :)

Good thing I already had mine ready!

I signed up because I have become addicted to this site, but tell me, how does signing up prevent a troll from commenting? One can sign up with any number of names?

Erp-

In response to your question, it isn't foolproof, but registering is more trouble than many trolls want to go through. Also, Typekey allows Bill the option to preview comments from new registrants before they go public, so if someone leaves an obnoxious comment he can delete it before we ever see it and ban that username from the site. If he bans them each time and forces them to keep signing up for new names, it gets inconvenient and they'll most likely move on and bother someone else.

Hope this makes things easier for you.
It is nice that I can use the same
registration on so many sites. ;-)

It's not like it's hard to sign up anyway. =p

No problem.

Easy as 1,2,3.

Typekey is probably loving this ;)

Testing... Easy to sign up but suddenly the popup comment section is all out of wack and can't be resized.

Well, The typekey registration is pretty painless...

Not too shabby, and you get a "one-stop" registration as well...

It's a sad commentary but you have to save your website from the spammers.