comment change
Comments have been re-enabled. However, if you put a link to your site, you'll be moderated. No links, and your comment will be posted. Kind of a simple work-around until I can find a better solution.
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Comments have been re-enabled. However, if you put a link to your site, you'll be moderated. No links, and your comment will be posted. Kind of a simple work-around until I can find a better solution.
So in the last two days I've received over 200 spam comments to my site, usually only seconds apart. They come in waves, so ten at once, then nothing for an hour or so. I've got a spam comment filter set up on this site, but the filter blocks keywords generally found in advertisement comments (like "insurance" or "vicadin", etc.), and it also blocks IP addresses. The trouble, thoug, with this latest comment spam is that there are no keywords - just gibberish like "xkljafwek" and "qouasfdlafd' - with one single link to a website that's selling some idiot product. So there's no way to block the spam based off of keywords. And what's really interesting, is that the IP addresses are a set of constantly changing IP address, suggesting that these spammers are using some sort of "distributed computing" network. Now that's kind of interesting, since that means that they hacked into some system that uses that sort of thing, and then got it to spam for them; that takes some smarts.
If spammers weren't such idiots when it comes to online advertising, though, they might actually be able to use their smarts to benefit the world, rather than screwing with the rest of the world.
Still, you may have noticed comments have been turned off site-wide. Until I can figure out a better way to block comment spam, I'm going to have to remove that option.