Brandon Connell
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Spammers Made Me Add Captcha
Jul 3rd
Today I was forced to add a captcha system to my blog because of the same spammer that has been hitting me for days now. Every 10 minutes I would check and notice 2 or more spam comments filled with links to porn and reported attack sites.
I decided to use the conditional captcha plugin which would deter the spam, and hopefully not get in the way of my normal readers. This plugin works in a way that if Akismet detects a comment as spam and filters it, it would go to captcha. If the person (or bot) failed the captcha, More >
Fellow Bloggers: BAN THIS I.P.
Jun 2nd
I was forced just now to ban an IP address for the first time on this blog. I am accustomed to a certain amount of daily spam, but this joker took the cake. This arsehole (no I’m not british) decided to spam me with over 30 comments in a row.
Now only did he spam with with 30 comments, but they were HUGE comments with a bunch of car parts and specifications which turned into a giant paragraph of illegible text.
The offending IP address is 69.174.246.208 and showed up with monster-lite.com as the owner. It is hosted on server beach and the More >
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Spam Will No Longer Be Approved
Dec 24th
Posted by Brandon Connell in Blogs
15 comments
I didn’t want to post this, but I felt at this point that I had no choice. For my regulars, this has nothing to do with you so no worries. But for others, I have to warn you that you are wasting your time spamming this blog with keywords.
What encouraged me to write this warning was a few comments, one after the other, that got past my anti-spam tactics. They weren’t published, but they got into my moderation queue.
The fact is that the person in question was an actual person and not a bot of any kind. That’s the only More >