comment spam

Cleaning Up

Submitted by Vishal on Wed, 2010/09/01 - 4:32pm

Cleaning up
As some of you may have noticed, the site is a shambles. Sure, it looks okay, but it's now cobbled together from a pre-existing theme, ever since my old theme wasn't going to work with the new Drupal upgrade. Since updating I've been inundated with comment spam. This is ironic, since I upgraded Drupal because I was getting comment spam.

So for the foreseeable future, I'm shutting off comments on this site. Sorry about this. I'm hopping on a plane in less than twenty-four hours and do not have the time to deal with this right now. The site itself needs a total overhaul at some point soon, but hopefully comments will be back long before then.

In the meantime, you can contact me by mail (allvishal at gmail) or on twitter.

V

The Perils of Overzealous Spam Combat

Submitted by Vishal on Thu, 2008/03/20 - 11:00pm

spam combat gladiators!In case you never noticed, there's a 'Recent Comments' column in the sidebar, and the more astute among you will realise that my comment has been sitting at the top of the pile for quite a while now. At first I thought it was just my readers being polite and staying silent while I ranted and raved about hot army women, haunted dream homes, and the unsexiness of the modern caveperson. But, pretty-much every reader of this blog is a blogger themselves, and we're a chatty lot. It was unusual to have no comments for weeks.

I decided to test the system out, and lo and behold, ran across a host of problems, all of which had to do with a malfunctioning captcha system (a 'captcha' is a test to find out if you're a human and not a malicious spam program, by asking you to answer a question only a human could) . Hmm, malfunctioning is not entirely right, because it seems to have been behaving a little too well.

Syndicate content