spam spam spam baked beans and spam (a blab by idle)

spam spam spam baked beans and spam

What's with all the new blog spam recently? Sheesh… and it's getting past my enhanced filters more easily, too. Sorry about that.

I'm about two inches away from going to a CAPTCHA-type system; how would people feel about that?

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julietta:

I've done it enough on other folks' sites that it's not such a big deal. Mildly annoying, but not as annoying as spammers on the blogs. So yeah. Do it. I DARE you. =) -j.

Posted by julietta | July 27, 2006 12:44 PM

Posted on July 27, 2006 12:44

Sebastian:

I noticed the spam wave as well. I had a growth of 2000 percent, that being more than 5000 spam comments in three days. I'm using Spam Karma for Wordpress, and not a single spam comment got through (I had to moderate only 3).

I'm basically against CAPTCHA, but it depends on how it is implemented. There are systems that won't let you post anything because it's so hard to identify the numbers and characters. Others are okay.

Posted by Sebastian | July 27, 2006 1:32 PM

Posted on July 27, 2006 13:32

yukino

I've been using akismet on MT instead of SpamLookup. It's about 7 billion times more effective -- I think it's only let two or three comments through in a month and a half and I haven't had to rescue any from unjust junking.

Of course, you could just come join us on vox...

Posted by yukino | July 27, 2006 2:05 PM

Posted on July 27, 2006 14:05

jet

Yeah. Friggin' spammers. I turned off non-Typekey commenting on my old blog because it just wasn't worth it. Besides, nobody was commenting anyway. Vox so far seems to handle it pretty well, but I'm just waiting for the day when spammers start somehow getting accounts and spamming there too. What will they do? Delete the accounts and all the messages they left? Hmmm.

Posted by jet | July 27, 2006 8:10 PM

Posted on July 27, 2006 20:10

a blab by idle

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