Current Mood:
Angry
I’m not one to advocate capitol punishment, but I think that if there’s a hell, there’s a special place in it for spammers.
I’ve implemented a CAPTCHA on guest commenting in the gallery. Sorry folks, but I just spent over an hour of my life removing around 500 spam comments on photos of our friends and family. It’s only been about 2 months since I last looked at the comments and everything seemed fine then (there were a couple of spam comments that I cleaned up) and I didn’t think it was bad.
I’ve been doing a little cleaning up around here and noticed the stupidity while checking on the gallery after an update. Hopefully the CAPTCHA fixes things up and helps avoid the spambots. If not, then we’ll have to turn guest comments off.
Funny thing is that after reviewing the search engine criteria used to find our site, one of them is a direct search for Wordpress Gallery installs with guest commenting turned on. Maybe we have been targeted. I guess Google can be a good tool for both sides.
I definitely know what you mean about the spam . . . but I wish you would’ve found a different illustration for this posting than the noose. It just seems like this is a bit of a sore subject these days.
(disclaimer: if my picture shows up alongside this comment, you will also see a noose–but that is in the context of the Jena Six issue . . . which I hope strengthens my point here and doesn’t diminish it.)
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