Patrick’s Rants

In this previous post regarding comment spam, I lamented that I wanted an autoclose feature for older posts. Well what do you know… there is one… seems to make the login take a while but I’m going to watch it. I also grabbed a couple more interesting antispam plugins… one adds the url, ip number and user name to the spam list when deleting the spammed comments the other is a comment tarpit slowing the site way down for comments recognized as spam… cool

If you run a blog, this little piece of randomized thoughts coupled with what some call ametuer journalism and others bogus armchair journalism, then you might have noticed as I have, this thing called blog spam. In my personal experience blog spam is very similar to email spam, but it has some interesting side effects. (more…)