Comment spam and attacks..

Okay, bloggers — we have some technically sharp people out there.

Are we going to let them ruin what we’ve built in the blogosphere because it amuses them.

Congratulations, all — you’ve succeeded in making blogging something good, interesting and useful enough that the trolls have arrived to destroy it because that’s how they get their jollies.

You have a few choices here:

1) be destroyed.

2) do what mailing lists did and increasingly crawl inside your walled communities with more and more restrictions and controls and protections and obfuscations and hidings that people stop feeling welcome to visit and join.

3) take the USENET route of toleration to a point, until that point gets bad enough that it drives most of the users elsewhere, leaving mostly hard-core users who refuse to give up and trolls.

4) something new, interesting and successful. Whatever that is.

Blogging is currently headed down path 2. Is that what you really want? Because now is the time to choose and do something, before the choices are made for you.

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