DAMN YOU SPAMMERS!!!
They’ve found me. Again. What is it that suddenly makes all hell break loose on your blog one day and forces you to spend 6 hours every day moderating comments???
You wanna know what really pisses me off? They’ve found a way to post spam comments on posts in which the comments ARE CLOSED.
HOW DO THEY DO THAT??? And why hasn’t the CIA swooped in and abducted them all to secret “re-education” camps?
Grrrrr… Makes me want to throw things.
August 15th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Do you use the wordpress plugin, Askimet? Once I didn all my spamming stopped immediately.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I haven’t taken the time to explore that. I see now that I’ll have to investigate it more seriously. I can’t spend all my days deleting spam.
August 16th, 2006 at 6:47 am
I use Askimet and I must say, it REALLY works. I have two blogs, one running WordPress 1.5, the other running 2.0. Askimet was blocking “normal” comments on 1.5, so now I’ve been reduced to moderating comments - a commenter must have a previous comment before it will be automatically approved.
And it catches most of them on the 2.0. However, I went on vacation recently a few spammers squeaked through (it’s a collaborative blog) and those comments went into those writers’ email boxes. I felt really bad for not catching them beforehand so now, I use Askimet AND moderate comments. It’s a pain, but it’s better than allowing them to go through and muck things up. Good luck!