Aug
12
2006
God damn comments system

Damn it.  For the past few days now this site has been getting a lot of spam comments.  I don't know how.  I have the security image/capatcha thing in place and working.  This capatcha tool is used to stop spam robots from posting tons of shit comments on my site for advertising purposes.  It's been working great for the past several months now.

But they've somehow bypassed it in the past few days and I've had to clean up or delete at least 100 spam comments a day.  I don't want to disable the comments system while I try and figure out how to stop it.  So instead I'm going to be moderating the comments.  In other words, I'll have to approve your comment before it will show up on the site.  This is mainly for your benefit of not having to shuffle through tons of spam.  Once I get the issue resolved I'll return comments to their normal, un-moderated state.

So for the time being, when you post a comment on my site it won't show up or be displayed until I approve it on my end.  So don't fret if you don't see you comment right away.  Once I approve it, then it will show up.  And don't worry, I'll approve every single comment that is not spam or advertising.  Thanks for your understanding in this matter.

...Sigh...

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This article was published 3y 11mon ago on Saturday, August 12, 2006 6:26 am by Nick Villescas. It was published under the following topics: Site News and with the following tags: coding, security, spam, updates. So far this article has received 630 hits with 2 comments.
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3y 11mon ago // August 13, 2006 1:22 pm
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I have to admit I was a little concerned about some of the comments, or at least there orgin, ie websites, but I figured it was some sort of spam thing going on.
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3y 11mon ago // August 13, 2006 1:28 pm
Nick Villescas // author

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Yeah Ive actually been pretty busy at work and Jenny and I have been pretty busy at home with wedding stuff. So I actually didnt visit my site for several days.

Then when I finally visited it I was greeted with a few hundred comments...all spam.
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