Back again
My website is back online again (for now) – I disabled it for a while for those of you who missed that – because I was getting a ridiculous amount of spam, and Askimet wasn’t picking it all up.
I have installed a Wordpress Comment Spam Stopper plugin by Mike Jolley at Blue Anvil dot com, which asks a simple to answer question , for humans anyway, hopefully it will fool all, most, some of the spammers on my blog.
I’m not promising any more content, but I will continue to put up random musings as and when. Stay tuned (via RSS probably).
Update: Well that comment question trick didn’t seem to do much good, I have received 1691 spam comments in the last week! Askimet caught most of them, but a few appeared on the site. I am now testing the Bad Behaviour plugin to see if that works better…
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I did have to think for a minute there as to whether snow was black or white… it must be too early in the morning.
Welcome back to the blogosphere!
Comment by Simon — 20-Apr-2007 @ 09:50
Hmmm and it seems that you need to enter “black” to make it work. Strange…
Comment by Simon — 20-Apr-2007 @ 09:50
Oops, I uploaded the wrong version of the plugin. I was playing about with different questions, and ended up entering some silly answers!
But it did prove you were human!
Should be fixed now
Comment by Donald — 20-Apr-2007 @ 23:02