Spam
Well, I'm back from my study abroad, and have many ideas for new posts. The only problem I had was to find 180 comments when I returned, 147 of whixh are spam, and about half of those were pornographic in nature. I apologize for this and not being able to remove them for a month.
I just cleaned them all out and I'll be increasing the difficulty on my CAPTCHA (sorry, it annoys me too, but it hopefully keeps bots out) to prevent this from happening further.
August 8th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
In the admin section, Plugins menu, turn on Akismet. I’ve gotten 2,900 spams to my blog and it’s missed fewer than 10.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Consider it done… lets see how it works.
September 20th, 2006 at 12:59 am
[...] Finally I’m being hit hard by spam posts. Most for porn, the others for cheap sex pills. Sorry for the misspelling… s3x p1lls. Akismet catches most of it (about 200 a week) but about 4 have been getting through a week, annoying. [...]