Spam handlers
Sep 26th, 2007 by handolio
On one of the sites for which Charlie and I write, we also moderate reader comments. Aside from the genuine responses and the occasional shameless plug for people’s own projects, there’s an increasing influx of spam.
Now, I consider myself fairly liberal when it comes to smut, but some of the links in our moderation queue have fairly turned my stomach. And this is just the URLs. Neither of us dares click on links that suggest at best an eyeful of filth, and at worse a local paper full of headlines sure to break our mothers’ hearts.
What I want to know is just what the hell these people (more accurately their robots) are trying to achieve?
The comments are moderated: nothing but genuine ones get through to the site. There’s not the slightest chance that a dodgy one will ever appear and, thank God, a soon-to-be-implemented filter means that even we won’t have to put up with them for much longer.
So, given that it’s never going to happen, why don’t they just fuck off?
The wordpress site has a useful list of installable plugins to prevent spam.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools
Try a image verification type thing.
Cheers Adam – anything to save my innocence.
Yeah Adam, if you can anti-spam the tide of filth that issues from Handolio’s mouth on a daily basis you might save my innocence too.
I thought you said you weren’t going to refer to me as Handolio on account of its being a back-street service in Naples?
You &*%#.
PS – filter installed, innocence saved, the world breathes a sigh of relief.