July 31, 2005

A few people have told me that they don't comment here because they find the Typekey registration requirement too annoying to have to deal with. I agree in priciple and I even toyed with trying a less annoying anti-comment-spam method but it only took a couple of hours with Tyepkey turned off for my account to get suspended due to spam bots loading the server's CPU to like 50%.

So don't say I didn't care or that I didn't try. I must be on somebody's list (could I possibly have offended anyone?). I'm just grateful Typekey works so well or I'd have to close comments entirely. And then there'd be a horde of angry villagers with nothing to do but tear across the countryside wielding torches and truncheons and not caring whose barn or castle they burned to the ground.

Thanks for sticking around, though. And thanks to those of you who comment in spite of everything.

I suppose I should just focus on writing stuff for a change. Let's see if I can scare up a dog today. I can always write something later.

Have you considered installing a Turing-test code like the SCode plug-in? Since installing that I've had almost zero spam to delete(/knock on wood). Or would that not make any difference on the ISP side?

Posted by: Solomon at August 2, 2005 05:16 PM

It's funny you should mention SCode -- that's the plugin I tried to install the other day that resulted in my blog installation going screwy on me. I'm not sure if it was a conflict with this new beta version of MT, whether it was a conflict with the remnants of MT Blacklist that may have been lingering around, or whether (most likely) I royally screwed something up.

And I'm indeed not sure whether SCode, or something like it, would be easier on the server (or whether the problem was even caused by comment spam as opposed to some kind of DOS attack or something). Maybe I'll give it another go in a month or two (or three or four).

Posted by: Jeremy Brown at August 3, 2005 12:08 AM

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