warpath
Written on 1 November 2004 | Posted in site stuff | 2 Comments
You might remember that a few days ago, I sought refuge from comment-spammers in the safe and comfortable arms of WordPress’ comment moderation function. While all looked well enough on the surface, the admin end of this site ground to a halt with hundreds of spam waiting to be deleted, each one, one at a time. Ho-hum. After 338 spams in 48 hours, I made the boldfaced decision to no longer meekly seek refuge, but, instead, to declare all-out war on the slithy likes of free-online-poker and his nefarious cohorts. I’ve installed an Auto Shut-off plugin that will “mature” a post at 21 days, at which point, comments will no longer be accepted for that post.
This will help me. I hope it will not inconvenience you.
I keep meaning to install one of the comment spam plugins like WP-Blacklist on my blog — would that help you out too, in additon to the close comment plugin?
1 November 2004 @ 21:25
Hey Anna – yes indeedy, I did spot that one on the list too. I have it earmarked as Phase II of the war on comment spam, and will wield it with reckless abandon if Phase I doesn’t hold up to my expectations.
God, I hate war rhetoric.
2 November 2004 @ 16:52