Spammers really take the fun out of wordpress
I switched on this thing called Akismet which might make life easier. If it doesn’t I think I will pack up and move to blogspot. Meanwhile here are some things that we should be doing next:
- Upgrade to the latest TW. (I think we are one point release behind)
- Let people remove their own sites. (Are you really sure? Are really truly sure you’re sure?)
- Make ts sites “clean”. By that I mean stop doing that sneaky/lazy little hack to put the upload button in the the SidebarOptions shadow tiddler and the password box in options because it dissappears when you upgrade your TW code.
- Restore the stats page. I think I can do it now with the tracking gif.
- Fix up our site reports. Our old ones are too slow now since we have 6000 or so sites. I am currently counting sites using ls -l | wc -l..
- Learn about fastcgi and how we might use it to reduce load (someday maybe?)
Update:
Well Akismet is doing a pretty good job so far, thank goodness. And I thought of another one, probably ahead of all the rest:
- Make an “I forgot my password” page. To make this effective we would probably have to ask for an email address at sign up.

Kevin wrote:
There are a few great ways to eliminate evil comment spam. David Seah has a great post about exactly this. You may want to see if this applies. It basically is installing and configuring a few plugins, including Askimet. However, it spplears that you can put another layer of protection _before_ it even gets to Askimet.
http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/10/18/comment-spam-measures/
Regards.
Posted on 05-Dec-06 at 2:28 am | Permalink