Its everywhere. The internet is filled with the nasty, spongy, robotic synthesized textual garbage we know as .. spam. I thought that for a moment (or a few months, rather) that I was immune to it. I figured, “Oh, no, with the low amount of traffic I get here, I doubt I will have to deal with any spam comments at all, much less an attack.” Damn, was I wrong or what? They came slowly at first, only one or two a day. Then I don’t log on for two days, and I check my email .. In which my inbox contains 69 new comment alerts for phazon.org. All garbage, all spam.
At this point I am thinking of disabling or requiring approval of comments on this website. I mean, the whole reason I put p.org into blog form was so I could get feedback. What kind of feedback do I get? Electronic ad ware gibberish. If anybody has any feedback or suggestions, I am all ears.
April 25th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Comment approval.
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 am
I think comment approval’s the way to go; they’re already back. _-_
May 11th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
What about account approval since we need to be logged in to post.
Shouldn’t be hard to tell the real from the fake.
May 11th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Sounds like a plan to me. I have changed the settings, have not had any spam comments in a few days so it seems to be working.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I’m sorry to hear of your dilemma. Is there anything I can do to help?
May 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Might I not recommend robots.txt (while it will stop your spam problem, it will also prevent search engines, directories, and Archive.org from accessing your site).
May 16th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Oh no, we have one that bypassed the filters!
Run everyone, it is xgmx!
May 17th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Don’t worry, I’m not here to cause trouble.