Patrick's Rants

The flood of trackback spammers has been on. I’ve had hundreds of emails in the last few weeks for moderated comments from spammer bots. This could have contributed to the failure of my hard drive, but I can’t be sure. The thing is I have comments set to turn off after a certain time using Auto Close Comments, an older plugin for WordPress. The thing is it leaves the trackbacks or pingbacks wide open. So I modified it. Now it closes trackbacks too. Of course if I was really smart I would have found Comment Timeout which is a newer plugin and is much more flexible. Maybe I’ll install and activate it next time.