Archives, eh
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# Links for 2008-08-29
WorldChanging: Paper from Wheat, not Wood
✴English Grammar 101: All You Need to Know
✴Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django reviewed. – By Grady Hendrix – Slate Magazine
✴Watchmen, Tintin, and…Drakmar?
✴Mad Magazine’s War on Bush collection – Boing Boing – Mozilla Firefox
✴0xDECAFBAD – UbiquityCommands
✴Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / My love-hate relationship with fantasy
“I hate it because I have read too much of it and the new stuff isn’t different. I hate it for giving me the exact same fix over and over.” <- This ✴ -
# Stupid Comment Spam
I delete about fifty or sixty comment spam a day at the moment. Almost without exception, the spam is on this post about receiving a Cure CD set for Christmas
I wonder if it is something about that post – either content, title or that it is off the front page – that makes it so attractive to google juicers, or if someone just wrote a script that POSTs comments using that particular node_id.
I guess I’ll find out in the next couple of days. I’ll be rolling out a fix that should – I think – block scripts that simply POST comments without making a GET first by introducing UsernameToken…well, the Token part anyway, since there are no user accounts on this blog except mine.
Technically it shouldn’t even be receiving comments anymore, it is older than 90 days which is the cut off for comments on posts around these parts. Except…except at some point I seem to have allowed a change made while testing to slip into production, and the cut off is 9000 days.
Meanwhile, spammers will be first against the wall come the revolution.
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# I've arrived...again
Oh boy, oh boy! The spam is here. The spammers have arrived to tell me all about viagra (don’t need it), cialis (not sure what it is…but don’t need it), girls girls girls (well…skanks skanks skanks) and all manner of poker and blackjack variants.
It feels good to be loved.
On the other hand, time to start the futile process of trying to prevent the spam from being made while keeping ahead of the deletion process.
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# Stupid Comment Spam, revisited
Well, that worked. Haven’t seen a single comment spam in the last 36 hours since I made some changes. Unsure though if it is because the post they were spamming on doesn’t accept comments anymore, or if it is because of the changes I made. I suppose if the spam starts up again in the same volumes I will know it was the former. If it starts up again but in reduced numbers I suppose I can feel that my changes made some small difference. And if it doesn’t start up again at all, I won’t care because there won’t be any spam
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# Stupid Comment Spam, revisited
Well, that worked. Haven’t seen a single comment spam in the last 36 hours since I made some changes. Unsure though if it is because the post they were spamming on doesn’t accept comments anymore, or if it is because of the changes I made. I suppose if the spam starts up again in the same volumes I will know it was the former. If it starts up again but in reduced numbers I suppose I can feel that my changes made some small difference. And if it doesn’t start up again at all, I won’t care because there won’t be any spam
