TheDrunkenEpic

Hello, I'm Wilhelm, a PHP developer, and this is my little corner of the internet where I can discuss things that interest me and, hopefully, you too. :-)


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22May 2008

Spam is cool only in Hawaii

Thanks to Akismet being a general dick and not working, I'm going to be considering a different commenting solution when the time comes to update this blog. I'm getting about 200+ spam postings a day now and I have to waste 10 or so minutes of my precious, precious time cleaning it all up. These are minutes I will never get back, people.

I've been considering quite a few methods to prevent this from happening, but I will probably decide to go with a comment service provider like Disqus. Haven't really read into how I would implement something like this into the blog, but judging by how many people use it, I shouldn't have any troubles.

This move should stop the spam dead in it's tracks. This is important because I have a lot of content planned for this site in the next few weeks, yo!


Your Commentary:

Hmm, very strange, I've got akismet on my website and blog and have never had any problem with it… it's let about 1 in 500 spam comments through. Have you checked akismet is actually working as it should with your blog? i.e. the comments are being passed through it correctly? I know, I know… you probabl have but it has to be asked!

Bob spoke the truth on May 22nd at 4:01 pm #

HA! You know what it was? It was the trackback plugin. I totally forgot about it, but it does NOT go through akismet. I turned it off last week and haven't had a single spam.

Coolio!

Wilhelm Murdoch spoke the truth on June 6th at 11:11 am #

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