Site News admin on 19 Jul 2004 08:00 pm
Oh, you are fucking going down!
Spammers prepare for the SmackDown.
Update: It is ON… and You Have Been Served
Comment queuing is in effect. (Comments will not be visible until I release them… I’ll update the templates Real Soon.)
Update #2: Perhaps the spammers weren’t paying attention. They Have Been Served! The new comment spam blocker just caught a couple dozen attempted spams. Suck On That.
Thanks to: scriptygoddess, David Raynes, and IDblog
FYI - The typical Movable Type method of dealing with comment spam involves manually deleting each entry and then rebuilding the website, which is a pain in the ass if some yahoo dumped 26 messages into random blog entries. There are a few more steps I can take, like modifying the “send-comment” script, but the comment queue has removed the pain from dealing with comment spam.
Rock on.
Update #3 (day #3): Another 36 attempts blocked, this time from someone not spoofing his IP address or randomizing his e-mail address. Sucka.
Update #4 (day #10): 78 attempts blocked today. Same joker as last time. I’ve gotta rename my comment cgi script…