Closing Comments
I’ve been getting a flood of comment spam, dozens of them a day, so I’m temporarily turning off commenting entirely on any posts over a day old. Unfortunately, none of the anti-spam plugins that I’ve tried for WordPress are as ruthless as I’d like; most of them do prevent the spam from actually showing up in the comments, but so far they all save it to be moderated. The WordPress anti-spam community seems to be stuck on the idea that it would be so horrible to have a false positive that it’s worth making the blog owner wade through dozens of held comments daily in order to rescue any that were falsely flagged. Bugger that, though. If the choice is between wading through page after page of spam or not allowing comments in the first place, I’m going to not allow comments. Most days I could spend more time deleting spam than writing posts, and it’s just not worth it for the couple genuine comments I get a month.
Update: Ok, I’m trying a new plugin, so let’s see if it helps…
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005