HDD Killers

Comment Spam

Posted on Monday 12 December 2005

Well today, about 8 hours ago, I got my first comment spam on this new blog telling people to go and “Order Phentermine”. Well no more I say! I have altered the options a bit for WordPress, any comment containing more than 5 links will be held for moderation, as opposed to the 10 links it was previously. Also, anyone commenting who does not already have a pre-approved comment will have it held for moderation. I would have to assume that it would use email addresses for this, so hopefully this will keep all spammers out.

If this keeps the spam down (and here’s hopin’ it does) then I may raise the link limit back up to 10, because 5 might be a little bit cramped.


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    Monday 12th December 2005 | 2:59 pm
     
    Jonathan Fenocchi's Globally Recognised Avatar

    Mine’s on 2. 🙂

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    Monday 12th December 2005 | 4:59 pm
     
    lilcrazyfuzzy's Globally Recognised Avatar

    oh david, i wanted to order Phentermine!

    btw, it’s a great way to close the door to spammers!

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    Monday 12th December 2005 | 9:32 pm
     
    David's Globally Recognised Avatar

    Jona, that’s just ’cause you’re mean. 😛

    LCF, you’ll just have to lose some weight another way. 😉

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    Tuesday 13th December 2005 | 1:54 am
     
    Robert F.'s Globally Recognised Avatar

    But I need to pointlessly link to random websites. Whatever will I do now?!!

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    Tuesday 13th December 2005 | 1:55 am
     
    Neal V.'s Globally Recognised Avatar

    Bah, I’m changing my Name here to my real name instead of my pseudo name.

    -Neal (formerly Bob) out, yo.

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    Tuesday 13th December 2005 | 5:25 am
     
    Daniel's Globally Recognised Avatar

    I don’t get it… I’ve never had a problem with comment spam. Never EVER.

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    Tuesday 13th December 2005 | 10:35 pm
     
    Daniel's Globally Recognised Avatar

    Lol, looks like a spoke too soon. I just got the Phentermine one aswell, but it was sent to Moderation right away.

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    Wednesday 14th December 2005 | 3:09 pm
     
    David's Globally Recognised Avatar

    Whatever will you do indeed Neal, you’ll get your comments moderated is what. 😀

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    Sunday 18th December 2005 | 3:53 am
     
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    Wednesday 21st December 2005 | 3:35 pm
     
    David's Globally Recognised Avatar

    Holy crap, I’m glad I took some preventative measures, I just got 3 new spam comments in the past 7 hours. Two telling people to buy viagra and another for sex toys.

    These people just have no decency.

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    Ben Rogers
    Wednesday 21st December 2005 | 7:58 pm
     
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    Lol. Hmmm…what keywords that YOU would use would ever attrac them, David? :p

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