Well. Imagine my joy when I discovered that I had about 65+ comments/trackbacks that were all advertisements for Viagra or Tramadol. Took me about 15 minutes to repair the damage.
So I have made a few changes.
- I still allow anyone to register even though I am fairly sure that some “users” are spambots or users who wish to exploit their registration in order to send spam. I occasionally delete users who have odd names or addresses (like wxmdf@domain.ru or webcontrz@whatever.net I mean really).
- But comments will no longer be posted without approval. And no one can post a comment who has not had a comment approved before. The only reason for being more strict is to prevent this kind of spam attack in the future.
- I also noticed that I can add key words or IP addresses in order to prevent some comments from ever being posted. (Words like… well… you know obvious spam words.)
