When comment spam first started becoming an issue a couple of years ago, I hacked my b2 installation with a word-verification field that forced people to enter my last name whenever posting a comment. Since then, some of my friends have implemented the same feature in their journals. (read more »)
I installed Alex King’s Popularity plug-in for Wordpress last night, which is working very well under Wordpress 2.0. The only problem with installing it in a journal that already has over 1,000 posts is that more recent posts are unnaturally popular because they get a chance to be on the front page. In theory, I like that index and rss views add to the popularity of a post, but they’re going to make the most recent stuff stand out.
Journal RSS 