Spammage
Posted: Thu 13 July, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 2 Comments »Over the last few days D4D™ has been drowning under a huge dollop of spam comments, mainly from two sites. Akismet wasn’t doing much to stop them, neither was SpamKarma2, and it amounted to something like 1,500 comments over three days.
To add to the fun, for some reason my WP admin section wasn’t allowing me to add things to the “blacklist” it’s got in its admin either, constantly telling me it’d failed some part of the page load. Which is weird, and I’ll be figuring that out more later.
Anyway, I ended up just having to get my hands dirty, and ferreting about inside the database itself in order to add the culprit domains to the blacklist. And since then, I’ve not had one spam comment from those domains, so I guess it must’ve worked.
Woo, and indeed Yay.
Sounds strangely familiar.
I haven’t been around on the web long enough to get spam in the numbers you describe, but even having to delete a few each day is still a pain in the ass. I can’t seem to find that blacklist function in MT either.