And as if out of nowhere, ker-splat. Spam. Everywhere. Specifically, in the comments of the four blogs running on this site, and mostly for Russian prawn sites, but also, inexplicably, for something else entirely.
Pasted below, but with the links removed, obviously, and the keyword replaced with the word “artichoke”:
and with few duties and a fair bit of reasonably diamond artichoke free time.
One thing I’m going to do: make artichokeinolog a list of really great moments in music that artichoke I’ve experienced or been witness to. Several religious artichoke come imediately to mind. It makes me think christian artichokes of something out of High Fidelity, which is dog artichokes a movie I liked, although a part of that is silver artichokes certainly because it was a movie about, partially gold artichokes for, and potentially by, music people. I want
man to read the book it was adapted from, too…the original setting of London as opposed to Chicago
Can you guess what the original word might have been? Try. If you put your answer in the comments, try not to refer to it directly. Try maybe describing it instead.
The curious thing about this is that (apart from the many artichoke references) it’s been sucked out of this livejournal site (search for Chicago).
Now, I don’t belive that the LJer in question was in any way responsible for covering the archives on my site in artichoke spam (mm, tasty), but here’s the bit I don’t get: how do they do that? Grab a chunk of text from a totally unrelated site and paste it full of artichoke links and references on another? Is it an elaborate, automated script, or what?
And short of banning all the IPs used (hard to keep track of, especially across four blogs, each of which has a different ban list, because there’s no universal IP ban across a single installation of MT - you’d think that might be worth looking into, for a future release, because chances are fairly high that an IP address banned from commenting on one blog within an installation might also not be welcomed on a neighbouring blog within the same installation) I don’t really know what else to do.
Before anyone points me in their direction, I’ve already been looking at the various discussions going on about comment spam and here are a few good starting points:
- kalsey.com
- mentalized.net
- Simon Willison’s Weblog
- Yoz Grahame’s Wistful Chocolate
- birningbird
- Dive Into Mark: Club vs Lojack solutions
- Phil Ringnalda
I’ll be implementing one of the solutions given above soon.
As soon as I’ve done my tax return. And packed to go on holiday. And written an article or two. And folded the laundry. Etc, etc, ad infinitum.
She said procrastination
was the cause of all my sorrow
I don’t know what that big word means
I’ll look it up tomorrow.
