complich8′s journal

So, ages back, when I started getting comment spam of all sorts of different types, I set up a moderation queue and made a rule … basically, if you posted with 2 or more links in your comment, it’d go into that queue and I’d moderate it. I get email whenever there’s a successful comment, [...]

For those familiar with pcre-type syntax, you already knew what that meant . For those that don’t, it means the term “blog” is probably sort of inaccurate for what I actually do here, so … you know, I figured I’d change it to be a bit more semantically accurate. ’cause you know me and semantics.

Since it was installed on this instance (not terribly long ago, a couple months I guess), akismet has caught 995 spams. That’s … well … All I can say is, great work, akismet. That’s a lot of spam that I didn’t have to wade through.

I’ve just gotta say … Akismet … seriously kicks ass. I got 58 comment-spams today, and precisely zero of them ended up making it past akismet. For some numbers: I’ve had one false positive and three false negatives with akismet, out of drawing near 700 spams since getting complich8.net. Pretty amazing, that… I’ll make a [...]

So, back in the world of wordpress (like world of warcraft, but with much, much worse graphics), I was getting really sick of the whole “not able to save posts cleanly” thing. I mean … it worked, it was just really annoying. So I did what I’ve done in the past: I smacked down a [...]