Saturday, June 1, 2013

Commenting Blues

So since my blogging hiatus, I've received a pretty decent number of comments on various of my old blog posts. Naturally I should be flattered, ecstatic even, at the thought that people still regularly come and read my blog and care enough to comment. However, upon closer inspection...

Spam! Spam everywhere!

This is like the blog equivalent of giving someone a box of their favorite anything wrapped up all nice and pretty with those little satin ribbons and fancy schmancy textured wrapping paper but sticking a brick inside of it instead. Curse you, spambots! Because of this, I've decided to add the captcha option to the comments. I know, I know. It's so annoying, but

...if you really loved me, you'd do this for me! (Says me and every other teenage boy looking to guilt trip their girlfriends into doing you-know-what)

In the meantime, I'll be cleaning up the comments section, deleting all the spam comments and whatnot. Also, I'm off to search for new blogs to read and follow, as some of the old ones I've been following haven't posted new content in a while as well. Awww, noooo! Please come back, everyone! We can all hold hands and blog about stuff just like in the old days. Please?

UPDATE: Thanks to Fang (awesome guy, check out his blog!), I set up comment moderation instead so all you lovely people don't have to go through the dreaded captcha loop. 

Huhu, 

6 comments:

  1. Just do like I do, have comment approval turned on. Captcha's are nasty for real people, and some bots know their way around them these days. With approval you automatically get the "x new comments need approval" message on your dashboard, so you know there's new comments, and on the off chance there's spam in there, you can delete it right away!

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    1. That's actually a great idea! I'm gonna fix up the settings then! Thanks, man.

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  2. hey ishashime....its been a while.

    me too. haven't my blog update so much lately.

    glad you're back :)

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    1. yeah, it really has been a while. update more, please! haha. i'm glad i'm back, too! :)

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  3. Argh, spam comments are so annoying! I don't have any filters on because I realise Blogger does a good job of detecting which comments are spam and which aren't.

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    1. Really? Cause I still kinda got a good deal of spam comments published. Oh well! At least I have some sort of filter now.

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