Curse you spam!

Last night I had my first experience with comment spam in this space. I checked my mail around 11 o’clock and found that I had 34 new comments here. Now at first I was surprised because the most comments I think I’ve ever received on any post was 10 and I didn’t think that what I wrote yesterday was that interesting. I then looked at what the comments were and they were all spam. Advertising online casinos or business grants or government grants. Fortunately I’m using Wordpress so all but two of the comments were waiting for my moderation and didn’t appear on the site. I quickly bulk deleted the comments and updated my moderation expression list to catch the two stragglers next time.

I think I made the right choice with Wordpress. As Matt details in this post, the comment features alone make it worthwhile. I’m looking forward to the 1.3 release because it looks to push the envelope even further and reduce the presence of comment spam on my site to a negligible amount (hopefully). I’ve seen MovableType sites complain endlessly about the presence of these spam comments, even if they have MT Blacklist installed. It’s really too bad that people find it worthwhile to create scripts that spam like this. I guess for some, money rules all.

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