While I was off in Boston, someone decided to start SPAMing the crap out of my blog. I returned to about 200 messages waiting for me to clean them up.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of it. Not only did I get to stare blindly at the Wordpress admin panel for about 15 minutes selecting and deleting comments en masse (gee, I wish there were a ‘Mark selected comments as SPAM’ button in the Mass-edit mode), but then they decided to pick it right back up a little later.
About 1,000 SPAM comments later, you started reading this post on a nice clean blog. It was actually pretty amazing to watch Akismet start picking up on the SPAM about half-way through. Comment after comment after comment was making it onto my blog, forcing me to delete it, then all of a sudden, none were… Everything was getting trapped by the Akismet plugin.
Here’s to Automattic… Hope to see more fun stuff in the future, boys!
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Chris Meller, on May 18, 2006 at 5:54pm, said:
Just in case anyone was wondering, I cleared out all the SPAM comments just before I left work about 5pm (EST), and as of now, less than 5 hours later, there are 210 comments sitting in the Akismet panel.
Looks like they slowed down when they realized none of their comments made it through, but they’re persistent little buggers.
Here’s to Akismet!
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