Primarily as an FYI to frequent commenters, I’ve enabled Spam Karma 2 on the ol’ blog again. The blacklist simply wasn’t able to keep up with the slow-witted, imbecilic vermin that post comment spam. In the past 24 hours I scraped somewhere north of 50 comment spams out of the moderation folder. No, of course they never made it to the site but I still had to sift through them. SK2 is designed such that I shouldn’t have to do anything by hand any more, so we’ll see. I know I had issues with the original SK back in the day such that it would incorrectly filter my friends but the plugin has come a significant way since then.
That’s one aspect of blogging I don’t miss. At all. If you have any problems, well, I’ll know about it because I comb my logs quite often. Trust me, your legitimate comments will show up because I do value them.
So far so good, actually. 357 spams caught since installation compared with 54 legitimate comments. Haven’t had any real comments sent to the spam bin and only a few spams make it to moderation (I still moderate people that have never had a comment here).
My backlog of spam to process using original-recipe SK at extrasonic is a lot like my yard; woefully neglected and out of control. Hopefullly SK2 will help.
Yea, same here. Lately my blog has been bombarded by spam comments. Last Friday, I had 342 spams. It was a tedious job to go through them one by one.
Hee!!
GAH!!! FILTHY SPAMMERS!!!
Dear ColdForged,
I wish to solicit your assistance to provide us with a solution to a money transfer of Thirty nine Million United States Dollars. We got your contact from my brother in law that works with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms in Nitro, West Virginia and a careful study of your business activities confirm that you are the one we need.
Hugs and kisses, ByTor
I’ve been getting hit a lot too lately. I’m hoping the “final” version has weeded out all the bugs.