Like many other WordPress users, I use a comment form plugin in order to get comments from my website’s WordPress installation into my mailbox. Getting that information from the site to the inbox is a fairly simple process, due mainly to fact that I used a simple contact form plugin. For the most part, I [...]

My spam filter has been acting up a little bit, and categorizing many of the comments in the past 48 hours as spam — so if you’ve made a comment in that time period and don’t see it on the site, it has probably been blown away by Akismet (WordPress’ spam filter). I know there [...]

I’ve been waiting a while now to get my 13000th comment spam (don’t ask me why, I’ve just noticed the number creeping up to 13000 lately, and I’ve been counting down the days). A while ago, I had decided to go with a challenge question as well as Bad Behaviour (which are both ways to [...]

While wading through my daily dose of spam (which originally never plagued my Gmail account, but now has risen to approximately 50 spam a day), I started thinking about the quality of information. How do we gauge the value of something that there is so much of out there? How can we filter out the [...]

After clearing out my comment spam filter on this site this morning, I decided it was time to attempt to curb the amount of spam this site is getting. In the first few months of this blog being around, I got around 1000 spam. As of today, the site’s up to about 100 comment spam [...]