Enemy of Entropy

Blah — Spammers Are Scum

4 September 2008, 10:30 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Family.

Not that it’s news to any­one, I know. But Defen­sio was down this evening (because of an Ama­zon server fail­ure), which meant that all of our sites have been slammed with com­ment spam. They all get hit con­stantly, but it’s usu­ally a non-​​issue because Defen­sio fil­ters almost 100% of the crap before we see it. These out­ages serve to remind us of how great the ser­vice is.

I notice that my older posts are the ones that get the most spam com­ments. I’ve looked for some sort of plu­gin to auto­mat­i­cally dis­able com­ments on posts after a week or so, but I haven’t found one so far. I finally gave in today and started back with the very first post on this blog, dis­abling com­ments. It is a tedious process! I’m sure that some­one could write a script that would do the same thing in the MySQL data­base much faster, but I’m not that someone.

Sam has to go back to work tomor­row. Pout. I’ve really enjoyed hav­ing him home.

2 Comments »

  1. avatar Hope. 5 September 2008, 6:56 pm

    re: spam­mers — I couldn’t agree more. The crap we get try­ing to post to the Stel­lar­Con forums is amazing.

    re: less Sam­Bear time — I’d pout too. **hugs**

  2. avatar TheAppDotNet. 1 October 2008, 11:04 am

    Due to the huge amount of com­ment spam I have been get­ting over the last few days I have turned off com­ments tem­porar­ily. It’s not as if I have been doing any­thing on the poor.…..

 

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