Upgrading to Fight the Spammers
I got a big fat load of comment spam for New Years Eve — about 300 spams, to be specific. Kitten’s Spaminator doesn’t seem to be doing the trick anymore, so I’m moving to Dr. Dave’s Spam Karma. It appears to be more aggressive at keeping spam out; unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to like the 1.2 pre-release version of WordPress that I’m running. The “mass edit” mode for comment deletion also doesn’t do anything in 1.2 RC1, which makes disposing of the remaining 245 rape-and-incest porn spams a real headache. Looks like it’s time for a blogware upgrade as well.
If the move to WordPress 1.5 (yes, it’s 1.5 now) and the addition of a new spam blocker cause havoc, please be patient. I hope to have the remaining spams gone by midnight, and I’m crossing my fingers that I don’t break anything in the process. Meanwhile I’ve beefed up my WordPress block list, so hopefully any spam posted between now and then will at least be shunted into the moderation queue. (more…)
