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No spam in the blog for weeks? I don’t know about you, but at least there’s not much that could be suspicious about this. Or could it? Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Akismet has let us know of a CodeIgniter library to allow developers to welcome Akismet to their CodeIgniter sites. The library is available for download from none other than Elliot Haughin’s blog, which incidentally is a WordPress blog! Ah, you just gotta love these subtle but significant connections…
I also made an Akismet library when I [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Even when my blog is inactive, spammers still loiter around my posts and rain spam on them every so many hours or days. Basically Akismet caught its first thousandth spam comment for BoltPress. Is this really an achievement worth bragging about? Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

So I never got to figuring out why comments were still being put in the moderation queue. And I also forgot to turn my plugins back on at 7:15 pm yesterday. I’m such a muddle
Anyway, I went to count the spam that rolled into my blog during those 24 hours and… there were [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

OK, this is getting absurd. I discovered last night that spam was being dumped into the moderation queue instead of being allowed to taint my posts and blog. And couldn’t figure out why. So now all spam is living in my moderation queue, waiting to be marked as spam.
Damn, I blew it this time. Guess [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Crap, I forgot all about today! I guess I was so busy thinking of NOVALISTIC and other stuff :/
Anyway, since I’ve been extremely late today, I’ll keep all my spam filters off until tomorrow at 7:15 pm. Fair enough? Fair enough.
If you read this blog, please don’t be frightened by all the pharmaceutical, pornographic (and [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Once in a few days I’ll go over and see what kind of spam Akismet has caught for me, and I just came across this (my 404th comment spam too, lol):

Delete This
[url=[removed]]Carsoprodol[/url]
cheap soma

I’ll go ahead and delete it, then Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Interesting catch: Jesper Rønn-Jensen is disabling all spam filters for a day on December 15, to see how much time actually is wasted sorting out spam comments, and how Akismet saves that amount of time by helping monitor comment traffic.
Now BoltPress is a very young blog (just under six months), so I don’t receive very [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Akismet has protected BoltPress from 300 spam comments. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

As of this very minute of writing:

Bad Behavior has blocked 1011 access attempts in the last 7 days.

In the last couple days, BB was blocking only three to four hundred a week. And now it has more than doubled. It probably hit a thousand while I was either asleep or having my E-Math Paper 2. [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »