Textpattern Spam
14 July 2006, mid-morning
I’ve gotten 4 pieces of comment spam at this site in the last 24 hours. To some of you, that may not sound like much, but it’s actually a lo considering I’ve managed to go almost 3 years with probably only a handful of spam comments making it onto my pages. I hope this isn’t a harbinger of crappier times to come.
A couple of months ago I was getting a few spam comments a day, but I just realized when you posted this that it magically stopped happening after a couple of days.
by Ben on July 14 2006, 11:34 am #
Why don’t you add an annoying field that would thwart 99% of the automated textpattern spambots? Or some math captcha as an homage to your undergrad?
by haran on July 14 2006, 3:22 pm #
I’ve gotten four in the past week myself. Only on one site and one post, though.
by Kenneth on July 14 2006, 3:46 pm #
by wowgold on July 15 2006, 1:45 am #
Up to six or seven spam comments now. Same post. Do the ‘spam’ and ‘ban’ options actually work? I know how Dean & co. like to give options for non-working features.
by Kenneth on July 19 2006, 5:19 pm #
I’ve been marking stuff as spam, though I’m not sure what sort of effect this has. I can check out the code and see what it does. (Actually, that’s a like; I will probably end up playing Warcraf instead of doing this.)
by ramanan on July 19 2006, 5:37 pm #
I just noticed that I have had about 7 spam comments on my website also… I”ve been banning IP’s and also marking comments as spam, but since the IP address is always different, I don’t think it’s going to have a huge effect.
by Skye on July 19 2006, 8:47 pm #
I just noticed all my spam is going to the same post as well. I’ve turned off comments on that post; lets see if that helps at all.
by ramanan on July 21 2006, 4:40 pm #