Comment Spam Measures
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Some eager spammer felt it necessary to start posting a comment on philsown.org every hour or so with links to porn. Great! In a way, I guess it's a compliment about my page-rank, which I don't think is that big a deal.
Anyway, I put in a couple of simple measures to try and stop this jerk. The first is all comments go into a pending state and I have to approve them. Hate to have to do this, but I must. But it's kind of a "hidden" feature, because the comments show up for the commenter using a cookie. This will make jerks think they posted something nasty on my site and then they'll go away.
Also, I added a simple captcha on the comment form. I know this will anger a few of the sentient androids who read this blog for matters of principle, but don't be mad at me. Be mad at robots, for bringing all of you down. And blame Google for inventing page rank.
And speaking of page rank, I added the rel="nofollow" to the url links here.
Update: Oh, and I added one more measure that checks the url they're trying to post and if I think it's spam, I kick them out.
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Oh, and I posted a "comment rules" message. *Sigh.*
I seriously LOATHE all comment spammers. I mean..really, what is their mission? Are they honestly hoping for people to attempt to purchase p3nis enlargment drugs? COME ON!
Best quote from a hosting client ever in regards to having a spam filter set up:
"Everyone on the Internet thinks my cock is too small!"
We kept a straight face while he was still in the office, then *died* laughing!
How to Put Your Face Next to Your Comment
May 9, 2008
This is a test... :-)