spam attack
Apr 04, 2006 in General
Seems like about once a week this site gets bombed with a 100 or so spam/commentspam messages buried in the system. Amazing how much free time some people seem to have, and how they use it to waste the time of others…. Anyway after looking over my options again I decided to not use a user punishment system (strict captcha that allways make commenter’s type in annoying cryptic codes to post), instead I turned on moderation… but well, that turned into a lot of work for me and slowed things down on the site. Blogs and comments should be as real time as possible IMO. Like most things related to the seemingly endless battle against obnoxious people and idiotic would be marketers that feel the need to try and blast their worthless message brazenly across any available space or medium (no matter how totaly inapropreate), there might be a few slight incontinences or hiccups with the new system in place. Just let me know vie direct email if you notice any problems.
Now I have installed a more auto magic filter system (spam karma2) which hopefully will address the majority of offenders. So far I have black listed a couple domains and I just turned on auto black listing for key words. Including the most common misspellings for everyone’s favorite libido stimulate. If for some odd reason you find yourself wanting to use such a phrase in a comment here be aware that the system will black list your IP without notice to me…