Hello everyone! I have instituted a new policy for subscribers to this website. I have been overrun by spammers who would register an account, and then do nothing with it. They wouldn’t post a comment, do a track-back, or do anything to show they were interested in interacting with the site. I then started to get posts with spam content from those registered accounts, which I manually deleted at first.

However times have changed. I am tired of deleting junk, so now if someone doesn’t comment on a post, do a track-back or any activity to interact with the site your account will be deleted after 7 days. Comment spam is a growing problem for blogs, and since I don’t have advertising this is costing me time/money that I won’t waste on garbage. I am using a great plugin called “User spam remover” which is working great. It automates deleting dead accounts.

Why have subscribers at all when people can subscribe to the RSS feed? Not everyone likes RSS and for some people its easier to get email notifications. Also by having subscribers I can reduce the amount of comment spam that I have to filter. Blogs take effort to maintain.