Oct
24
2005
The Blog Spam Arms Race hits Chausse.org

Frequent readers of this site (if there are such things) may have noticed a lot of comments (appearing then disappearing) praising how wonderful my site is, then linking to some random web page.

Here’s why… WordPress (the blogging software behind Chausse.org) has a feature that is supposed to allow automatic posting of comments ONLY if they’re from people who have already had comments approved. I say “supposed to” because it’s not working so well for me. Not sure if I broke it or what, but things are getting through automatically, regardless.

As far as I can tell, the purpose of these spam comments are to make you slip up when moderating comments (either before or after they make it online). It’s easy to go through a list of posts like “PLAYY POKEER ONL1NE N0W!!!” and drop the bomb on the bad guys, but it’s a lot harder to scan through a list of 200 friendly looking posts, without accidentally deleting perfectly resonable comments.

Anyway, regardless of why these spam comments are happening, and regardless of why the unapproved posters are still showing up, I’ve decided to do something about it. If you post a comment now, you will notice a “captcha” graphic which you must deciper to post your comment. Sorry for the inconvenience, but things were just starting to get out of hand…

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