Friday 24 April 2009

Annoying Housekeeping

I'm afraid there's nothing of great interest in this post, besides the token cover shown before. I woke up this morning to 589 Chinese porn spam comments littering the blog, and, because deleting each individual comment in Blogger is an annoying three-stage process, have a fun morning ahead. Obviously using the P-word in my last post drew the attention of their bastard robots. Because of these, I'm afraid I'm going to have to introduce that irritating "captcha" code-word thing for comments-leavers from now on. Sorry about that.

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10 comments:

  1. John Self27 April 2009 at 03:04

    Commiserations. Just so you know, if you did switch to WordPress, you can delete comments in batches of 20 with one click.

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  2. JRSM27 April 2009 at 04:08

    Ah, that would be bliss! Sheer bliss! (For certain values of bliss)

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  3. Charles Lambert27 April 2009 at 04:41

    Something like that happened to me a few days ago. I tried moderating but I couldn't stop myself checking every ten minutes in case someone had left a comment. (Generally, they hadn't.) So I've done the same. The good thing about word verification is that now and again you get something apposite to the message, which is neat. (Though not this time, unless I was called Bettijo in a previous existence.)

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  4. JRSM27 April 2009 at 05:13

    'The Scent of Cinnamon' by Bettijo has a certain exotic flavour. Unless it's Betti-Jo, which is rather less exotic.

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  5. Charles Lambert28 April 2009 at 11:10

    It still sounds better than fullpoo, which is what I've got this time!

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  6. JRSM28 April 2009 at 15:40

    See, now they're just being insulting.

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  7. Steerforth29 April 2009 at 00:43

    I had the same experience last week and opted for the half-way house of only requiring moderation for comments that are 14 days old.

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  8. Steerforth29 April 2009 at 00:44

    Or to be more precise, 14 days or older.

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  9. Anonymous25 November 2009 at 09:33

    Death to chinese spam indeed! My yahoo inbox has been free of it for months and now it is back in full force. about 5/day.

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  10. JRSM25 November 2009 at 13:38

    Annoyingly, I just got my first new one in a while this morning, too. Bastards. Or 私生子, rather.

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