Monday 16th January 2006
Grrr
The war against the spam commenters is, it seems, endless. Last week I installed a well-know plugin (Askimet) to help protect this blog - previously all comments were being moderated by me, which led to big delays for honest commenters. After a few days of successful operation, I switched off the moderation on Friday, only to be faced with a handful of spam comments making it through last night. Grrr, indeed.
So the moderation is back on again, but only for first time posters (first time since I upgraded a few weeks ago, I think that is). I’m especially disappointed that Askimet didn’t pick up on comments which were exactly the same format as the previous 200 that I had got.
Still, it’s not really the plugin’s fault - one day, there will be much vengenance wreaked by everyone who has ever run their own blog…