Drug induced luxury car drivers out shopping for viagra … April 16th, 2007
If we took the spam we have been receiving in the last week or two as an indication of prevailing trends, that would seem to be who and what people on the Web are doing these days. Like many of you we are inundated with comment spam. It drives us nuts and even though our spam filters do manage to identify incoming spam as spam, we are still forced to scroll through pages of rubbish to find the few legitimate comments. Unfortunately we wind up spending way to much time doing this so we have decided that enough is enough. These spammers can take their erectile dysfunction afflicted, roadster drivers and go bug someone else.
As a last ditch effort to limit the amount of spam that comes in we have extended our Captcha verification tool to comments and user registration forms. If this doesn’t reduce the amount of spam coming in (the vast majority of which is anonymous as opposed to fake registered users) we will be forced to restrict comments to registered users. It would be really great if you would register anyway because registered users’ comments bypass our moderation queue and are posted immediately. You do have to be logged in to the site first, though.
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