Comment Spam Overload

Posted in: alexking.org

Yes, comment spam is the reason the site keeps going away from time to time. It’s basically DDOS by comment spam. We’re working to put up some measures to stop it.

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Posted December 18th, 2006 @ 4:21 PM

4 Replies

  1. Adam Saunders adds this Comment:

    Doesn’t Akismet take care of most of it? I still get maybe 10 spam comments a day, but it is definitely manageable.

    December 21st, 2006 at 5:28 pm

  2. Alex adds this Comment:

    By the time that this level of spam attack reached Apache, you’re already dead. If it reached all the way through WP to Akismet, you’d be doubly dead.

    December 21st, 2006 at 5:38 pm

  3. Masey adds this Comment:

    Alex, the “Type notspam” field you have added to your comments form… is that some kind of MOD that’s available?

    Is it working for you?

    January 17th, 2007 at 2:30 am

  4. Alex adds this Comment:

    Sorry, mine isn’t available but lots of similar plugins are available.

    January 17th, 2007 at 10:05 am

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