TypeKey is just what I thought and, decidedly, even if I don’t question Six Apart’s honesty, I don’t like the concept. When I can define the reasons better, I’ll let you know, if nobody else does in the meantime.
It remains to be seen whether bloggers massively decide to activate TypeKey. But I have a kind of feeling that there won’t be any escape.
Actually, I’m not even sure their idea will work. The biggest problem with Movable Type blogs is that spammers post comments just so that their URLs will be seen by Google. What will prevent them from putting those URLs on their TypeKey page, and recreate their profile everytime they have been banned from too many blogs?
Unless they have a magical, undisclosed solution1, TypeKey could actually make it easier for spammers, as they will only have to register once in order to spam all the affiliated weblogs. Whereas their task could have been made harder by leaving the registration and e-mail address verification job to each individual blog.
We’ll see…
1: Remember Orkut Fight Club? Orkut or Friendster are mostly unimportant toys, but TypeKey may become essential to the blogging world. Just imagine the drama we’ll get when people start getting booted out of TypeKey.
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garoo, 8 years ago:
Oui, la redirection, je comprends pourquoi ils ont fait ça, mais c'est lourd. Quand quelqu'un signe un commentaire de son prénom, pas moyen de regarder son URL pour savoir qui c'est, on peut juste cliquer.
hugolin, 8 years ago:
Quest-ce qui les empêchera de mettre les URL en question sur leur page TypeKey ?
S'ils sont assez intelligents chez SixApart pour empêcher google de référencer les pages de profils (robots.txt ?), ça peut passer, non?
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