Comment spammers attack
The website was attacked with about 200 messages in the form of comments yesterday. I noticed it while working up the new interface to the website. I had to go through them all and delete them, which was a bigger pain to do than I had hoped it would be.
That said, I’ll probably try to incorporate one of those “captcha” type plug-ins to the comment form so that some human intervention will be required to make a comment.
Update: Henceforth, all comments can only be posted by registered users. Anonymous comments are no longer allowed. Sorry folks 
Filed under: Politics by ramdac |
July 24th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
Its good that you caught it before you got too many of the bogus comments.
July 24th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
ah, i would have simply had to craft another delete query.
July 25th, 2005 at 8:26 am
whats Captcha
July 25th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
Captcha is something wicked cool. You’ve probably seen them and didn’t know it. It’s those images where you have to type in the letters shown on the screen in order to submit the form. Paypal uses it, and so do many many other websites out there.
check this out: Captcha documentation
July 26th, 2005 at 8:15 am
Oh i see.
I looks like you had a spammer post on e-voting doent work
August 13th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
Its amazing how many features you can add to even a small application like a blog. Still adding new features to my .NET one. Hope to release it open source eventually.