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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1308 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on June 13, 2005 and belongs in the web category. The previous post was , and the next post is .

Spam From TypeKey Users

Until today, I let users who sign in to this site with Type­Key leave com­ments with­out moderation.

From the Type­Key page linked above:

> What is it good for?

> Type­Key enables you to verify and pro­tect your iden­tity on the web. Enabling Type­Key on your own site increases account­abil­ity for the con­tent that appears on your weblog and stops com­ment spam cold.

Not any more it doesn’t. The screen­shot below shows a com­ment, since deleted, left on this post, by a spam­mer reg­is­tered with Type­Key as goldyy. (The little icon next to the poster’s name indi­cates that they’re signed in with TypeKey.)

Screenshot showing a comment spam left by a TypeKey-registered user

Posted at 5pm on 13/06/05 by Jack Mottram to the web category.
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  1. oh dearie. I thought I’d done some­thing silly there!

    Posted by Donna at 9pm on 13.06.05

  2. Nope, you just hap­pened to be on top of the spam, er, so to speak.

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 11pm on 13.06.05

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