Silencing the hordes
Interesting idea among a bunch of random predictions for the coming year:
Someone will write a Wordpress plug-in to automatically disable comments if the referrer is Digg or Slashdot.
Tech and Blogging Predictions for 2007 « //engtech
Visitors invading a community, and commenting with no sense of context is a growing problem, and this would greatly limit it. It’s not solidly secure of course, but would be enough of a deterrent to be useful. Reminds me of metafilter, whose daily-new-membership-quota kind of provides this feature, and additionally slows membership growth to a integratable rate.