The Aerie
Ha! Take that, spamming scum!
For weeks now the problem of automated comment spam has been getting worse and worse. Since I'm planning on replacing this whole system soon with a new one, I was reluctant to spend a lot of time messing with this one, particularly since I never have any time anyway.
However, the recent addition of one hundred spam comments in a single hour told me that I was going to have to take steps. Fortunately I had already located Jay Allen's excellent MT addon, I just had to steal the time from other projects in order to install it. So housecleaning waited an extra hour while I downloaded it and distributed its files appropriately.
When I was done, 111 comments had been deleted, and all of 19 remained...
IN YOUR FACE, LOUSY COMMENT-SPAMMERS!
(Now if only I could get over the suspicion that my system has been rootkitted... )
Posted by Albatross at November 13, 2004 11:44 AM