Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Comment spam...

I'm sure that the readers of this site have noticed the sudden deluge of comment spam that seems to have been inflicted upon this site.  I've had to start a morning ritual of deleting these bogus posts (and, unfortunately, any post that replies to them).  Of course, now that I've commented on them, they'll probably start kickin' it up a notch and increase the traffic.  I'm going to request that we change the comment system to require that the commenter have a BDN account.  This way, if there are any abuses, we can simply turn off their account.  I hate to have to push for this, but this is yet another thing that is going to be ruined by a few jerks out there.  I haven't turned off allowing comments for now since the number of these messages hasn't become too burdensome... just annoying.
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7 comments:

  1. Chee%20Wee ChuaAugust 10, 2004 at 1:07 AM

    Irritating bug, why's my name "Chee%20Wee Chua" instead of "Chee Wee Chua"?


    HTMLEncode not working properly? ;o)

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  2. Allen BauerAugust 10, 2004 at 1:09 AM

    Good question... I don't know why that is.

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  3. Arno BrinkmanAugust 10, 2004 at 1:11 AM

    If the login can be remembered (by cookie or whatever) i don't see any real annoying thing about it. SPAM is probably the most annoying thing internet has brought to us.

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  4. corbinAugust 10, 2004 at 2:23 AM

    yeah, my guestbook had the same problem. http://members.cruzio.com/~seaweb/corbin/guestbook.html ...now, I use http://www.junkeater.com to prevent spam. So far, it has worked wonderfully.

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  5. samAugust 10, 2004 at 11:11 AM

    spam is the most annoyin most definately

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  6. sonetAugust 10, 2004 at 11:31 AM

    i just wanted to ask, i found this site and dont understand what it is used for, what information does it give or teach? please reply

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  7. Robert LoveAugust 10, 2004 at 1:35 PM

    I have added QC #8776 to track your request.

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Please keep your comments related to the post on which you are commenting. No spam, personal attacks, or general nastiness. I will be watching and will delete comments I find irrelevant, offensive and unnecessary.

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