I just went through and deleted 11 comments that made it through the filter. It’s a real pain (and I suspect Burt is doing more than I am on this front), but there is an upside: It’s drawing attention to old posts. I commented on one of Elias’s without even realizing how old it was and maybe doing a follow-up post over here. We have a great backlog of material, and the spambots are finding them for us.
Thanks!
(You can leave now. Seriously.)
UPDATE BY BURT LIKKO ON 3/24/12: Spam count now exceeds 31,000 since this started on Friday. That’s a lot of fake viagra.
This is a wonderful post, and I’d like to thank you for bringing attention to the issue.
…wait a minute… I KNOW THAT BEARD!
And I’d have gotten away with it, too, if not for that meddling gravatar.
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Is it possible to close out comments automatically after a certain number days (like 30 or 60?) Most of the stuff currently in ‘Gifts of Gab’ are from posts from last year or earlier.
I’m looking into it. Our spam just on the sub-blog has now exceeded 18,000 comments. Apologies to anyone whose real comment was swept up in my policing against it.
There is quite a backlog of great material.
And I was rather pleased at how prolific Burt had been lately until I noticed the dates.
I keep hoping my schedule will relent. Eventually it will. Patience. In the meantime, do enjoy the archives!