Posts that have the tag "comments"
Comment Screening
Just in case anyone is curious why I screen comments, I received 155 spam comments last night. Deleting them is a pain, but it's better than searching through all of my blog entries trying to find them.
Posted on February 26, 2010 at 12:31 pm. 0 comments. Tags: admin website spam comments
Spam Comments
Last night, I received (and deleted) 18 spam comments from my blog. All were from different IP addresses (not sure if they were spoofed or what) and all were gibberish. They were never posted to the blog, because I screen all comments on my blog.
Posted on August 03, 2009 at 09:41 am. 0 comments. Tags: comments admin
Comment Screening
I wanted to talk about the necessity for comment screening. Before I developed my current blog I had used Livejournal for years and had WordPress installed for a few months. When I was using LiveJournal, people who wanted to leave comments had to be registered users. Registered users who used spam would be brought to the attention of moderators and banned (or so I presume) and, as such, spam was generally far more controlled.
When I used WordPress, no registration was required and because of this, a ridiculous amount of spam was left on my blog. To give you an idea, over a few months, I received about 3-4 legitimate comments on the 3 posts I made in that short period of time and about 60 or so spam comments.
Because of this, I've decided to employ comment screening in order to protect my site from being hit by spam bots. There's nothing I can do to prevent the spam bots from visiting sites and automatically filling in the fields, but I can prevent the material from being visible.
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:59 am. 3 comments. Tags: Dev comments
Comments
After a short hiatus due to personal issues, I think I've finally gotten comments up and running and ready to go live. I'll be monitoring which comments are used and see if tweaks need to be made.
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 10:54 am. 0 comments. Tags: Dev comments
Comments...again
Problems have arose and I've been unable to continue writing my comments script for a period of time. I only resumed writing yesterday. read more...
Posted on February 19, 2009 at 11:51 am. 1 comments. Tags: dev comments
Comment System
I've written about half of the comment script for my template page. read more...