So, I’m not stalking or anything, but I check this site along with slashdot, fark, and a few others a few times daily (ah, the life of a codemonkey with a net connection). I’ve not ever see any comment spam here. Do you delete it a few minutes after it arrives? (btw, happy 102nd comment)

So, I’m not stalking or anything, but I check this site along with slashdot, fark, and a few others a few times daily (ah, the life of a codemonkey with a net connection). I’ve not ever see any comment spam here. Do you delete it a few minutes after it arrives? (btw, happy 102nd comment)

Well thanks for visiting…I need to have those people. I have a few sites that I don’t think are hugely popular hat I frequent and I’m sure they appreciate me too.

Anyway, I do try my best to delete the spam as soon as I see it. Plus they always seem to spam posts that are a few months old. Weird since they are old posts noone really sees them near as much as the other or bigger posts, so whats the point of spamming if noone sees it?

Well thanks for visiting…I need to have those people. I have a few sites that I don’t think are hugely popular hat I frequent and I’m sure they appreciate me too.

Anyway, I do try my best to delete the spam as soon as I see it. Plus they always seem to spam posts that are a few months old. Weird since they are old posts noone really sees them near as much as the other or bigger posts, so whats the point of spamming if noone sees it?

Yeah, my blog has been hit lately with comment spam, mainly on my older topics. I’m using WordPress, and I have a spam filter in place, with a few other techniques.

One way that I stopped this most recent spam on my old posts, was to install a plugin to WordPress, that automatically shuts off my comments after a certain number of days. I set it to 7 days, so posts older than that cannot be commented on anymore.

Yeah, my blog has been hit lately with comment spam, mainly on my older topics. I’m using WordPress, and I have a spam filter in place, with a few other techniques.

One way that I stopped this most recent spam on my old posts, was to install a plugin to WordPress, that automatically shuts off my comments after a certain number of days. I set it to 7 days, so posts older than that cannot be commented on anymore.

I read Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog regularly (he’s a Yahoo! dude). To combat the spam he added a field making commentors answer a question obvious to any human, but near-impossible for a spam bot. His blog is at: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/

In other things, after procratinating on hacking up my own blogging system similar to Jim Drewes’ ( http://jimdrewes.com ) I decided to download a ready-made package. What I really want more than anything is a system where I have full administrator control, but allow any registered user to make posts to the main page… I’ve got b2evolution running right now, but I’m not terribly impressed by a few things. To login or make a post you have to scroll 2/3rds the way down and under ‘Misc’ there is the _small_ login link.
As if logging in and making posts was not a common activity for a blogging system.
Also, people’s names are not displayed with their posts. This might be a configuration mistake on my part – but it’s a problem that you have to _enable_ the display of names, rather than having to _disable_ it if that was what you were wanting. My next blogger trial is going to be plog ( http://www.plogworld.org/ ).

plog is turning out a bit better than b2evolution. found myself a nice template and the user interface is mostly-straightforward. Some things are broken, though. You can add a new template, but in the ‘delete template’ page there is nothing listed even though there’s 5 installed.

Yeah, that is pretty weird. I’ve been taking a look at your blog, looks good. But weirdness like that is bound to happen with all of these open-source blogging tools. I’ve never found one that is perfect.

plog is turning out a bit better than b2evolution. found myself a nice template and the user interface is mostly-straightforward. Some things are broken, though. You can add a new template, but in the ‘delete template’ page there is nothing listed even though there’s 5 installed.

Yeah, that is pretty weird. I’ve been taking a look at your blog, looks good. But weirdness like that is bound to happen with all of these open-source blogging tools. I’ve never found one that is perfect.

Now I seem to be getting SPAM from playboy magazine. However, it does appear that the spam blocker built into MT is working better than the MT-Blacklist.

Now I seem to be getting SPAM from playboy magazine. However, it does appear that the spam blocker built into MT is working better than the MT-Blacklist.

maybe if you bitch loud enough you can squeeze a free subscription out of them.

Now thats some good thinkn’!

hummm…. how could you incorporate the playboy spam into your cafeshops.com stuff? you know there’s an opportunity there someplace.

“HellYeahBitch.com – If it’s good enough for Playboy, it’s good enough for you!”

maybe if you bitch loud enough you can squeeze a free subscription out of them.

Now thats some good thinkn’!

hummm…. how could you incorporate the playboy spam into your cafeshops.com stuff? you know there’s an opportunity there someplace.

“HellYeahBitch.com – If it’s good enough for Playboy, it’s good enough for you!”

You know what? I like it.

Wanna be Hell Yeah Bitch .com’s PR / Advertising head?

You know what? I like it.

Wanna be Hell Yeah Bitch .com’s PR / Advertising head?