Downtime :-(
Hey everyone, sorry for the recent downtime.
My server was experiencing some problems with their mySQL database. Everything seems to be workign fine now.
Sorry for the inconvinience!
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Sorry about the downtime.
I was trying to get my feeds to validate, which meant that I had to get my host to get its ad code out of it.
This somehow resulted in massive errors.
Everything should be fixed now.
(Hopefully) the end of comment spam.
Yesterday I installed the reCAPTCHA Wordpress plugin.
reCAPTCHA is a capatcha (those funky letter things some sites have you type in) that helps to digitize books.
Even after I set my blog to only allow comments from registered users, somehow I still got spam. I installed Akisment spam filtering for Wordpress, and while it caught all spam, I still had to go through and delete it.
I wanted to catch spammers before they post their comments, and that is why I installed reCAPTCHA.
reCAPATCHA works by giving you two words to type in: one it already knows, and one it found in a book but can’t read by itself. By you spelling the word it knows correctly, it assumes you have spelled the other word correctly as well. Every time a user types in the spelling of a word, it becomes more and more certain about the spelling.
I’ll write an update in a week or so telling the results.
Click here to stop spam and read books with reCAPTCHA.
UPDATE (9/27/07): No spam yet, so I am allowing unregistered users to post comments. I had turned on that option as the first measure against spam. It didn’t stop work; it only discouraged real people from posting comments.
