Partial defeat for Spammers

Due to more exciting entries, this event had to a wait a while but I would like to share with all of you readers to let you know I’m trying to do my part in the War Against Noise. Once again some schmuck posted spam into the Picayune. It wasn’t easily seen since I stumbled upon it in the Gaming section which seems to be a constant target. The best theory why is from my friend Adam; the word gaming is commonly used in Google searches so that’s how my site it getting pestered. The more baffling part is why do these people bother and why did they waste the energy to post a bunch of gibberish in the Comments section? In the past it was porn, sexual-aid drugs and real-estate scams. Then again, it could’ve been some Pentecostal spammer writing in tongues! 
 
Out of irritation, I finally dug around to discover where the heck Commnets are really stored. Seems they’re in an invisible folder per subject. Once I found them I purged the junk out with the UNIX skills Apple paid ACC to teach me. I thought about putting in a plug-in that will do comment moderating (in English, it means I would see all comments in advance to review and approve before they are posted) but doing the housekeeping seems faster.

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One Response to Partial defeat for Spammers

  1. Mark M says:

    FWIW WordPress has built-in comment moderation, no plug-in required. Works great for my blog.

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