Setting up this blog
Having installed the blog software on the web server and made a few posts to see if its working, I then started to get into using the various functions offered by the application - or at least beginning to find out how to use them.
The software - WordPress - has a help web site. I noticed a thing called a “blogroll” so I went on to the help site to see if I could find how what it was and how it would be configured and used.
After a bit of searching I found the section about Creating and Managing a Blogroll.
I found out that ” The blogroll is where you link to the blogs you read frequently - a friendly way of acknowledging the good blogs out there “.
The Blogroll lists links to other blogs. There is a page on the admin area where these links can be inserted. So I did a search for uk blogs on web design, found a new and added them in.
OH NO NOT SPAMMING!
I now find that blogs get spammed. Complete idiots try to post their pathetic rubbish to my blog. It will never get through. Dont they understand this? Comments that are clearly spam just get marked as spam and deleted before they ever get published. All that spammers do is to create more work for me to delete their miserable detritus.
If this sounds harsh, just count up the minutes of my time that are wasted every day deleting spam.
Bear in mind that it has been estimated that 80% of all e-mail traffic on teh Internet now is unwanted, unsolicited junk mail.
Who is paying for that? People like me who are serious Internet users and whose time is being wasted by spammers.
Fortunately, blogging packages have anti-spamming devices built in and block rubbish from being posted to serious blogs. Comments are welcomed from serious users but have to be moderated before they are published.