Fighting Comment Spam with Bad Behavior, Akismet, Spam Karma

I’ve been using Akismet since I started using WordPress in early 2006. It does a tremendous job of detecting spam. However, it’s not perfect and a few messages gets past its filter each week. Since I enforced moderation on new posters, this kept the spam from showing up on the blog. However, that measure prevented [...]

Five Reasons I Blog

I’ve been blog-tagged by Adam (tag) and Sebastian (tag) to write about why I blog.

First, let me clarify that there have been three incarnations of my blog. When I started in 2004, I used a phpbb forum to post “blog” entries. I did it for three months but then lost interest. In early 2006, [...]

Most realistic spam comment I’ve seen

In addition to using Akismet to do the bulk of the filtering of comment spam, I moderate comments from new users. The past few days, several comments have made it through Akismet’s filters and I was notified to moderate them. Today, I saw one that seemed genuine:

I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins [...]

I’m an exhibitionist?

I was talking to someone about the blogging phenomenon. He said that he felt that it was “voyeuristic” reading my blog.

I said, “That’s OK. I’m an exhibitionist!”

I only expose myself when it comes to writing, of course, not when it comes to clothing. :angel:

 

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