Due to the amount of spam coming from China, I\u2019ve had to disable comments on my blog.\u00a0 Live Spaces does not require anything more than you are logged into Live to be allowed to comment on a blog.\u00a0 This leaves it open to bots to post like crazy.\u00a0 The result has been an ever increasing number of spam comments to sites in Asia, advertising and selling all sorts of crap.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been spending more and more time trying to clean up this rubbish but now I\u2019ve had enough of it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve complained to Live, Microsoft, anyone, and nothing has been done.\u00a0 The solution would be simple: place a \u201ccaptcha\u201d on the comment site to prevent bots from submitting a comment.\u00a0 Instead, MS Live is forcing its users to either leave Live or disable the 2-way communication of a blog.<\/p>\n
I am researching the possibility of leaving Live Spaces completely.\u00a0 My main requirement is being able to take my content with me.\u00a0 Until there\u2019s a solution or I\u2019ve migrated I won\u2019t be able to re-enable 2-way communications on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Due to the amount of spam coming from China, I\u2019ve had to disable comments on my blog.\u00a0 Live Spaces does not require anything more than you are logged into Live to be allowed to comment on a blog.\u00a0 This leaves it open to bots to post like crazy.\u00a0 The result has been an ever increasing … Continue reading “I\u2019ve Disabled Comments On My Blog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t