We all know that O’Reilly of tech books fame is the one who first used the term “Web 2.0″ to describe the way the web has matured and how interactivity between a website and its audience is the future of the web. The term, as a GENERIC term to describe the phenomena, has been used [...]

I am a happy camper. Not only has the deluge of comment spams slowed to a very manageable trickle, but the very few that do come in go into moderation where I can deal with them properly. This means that I’m down to a nice 10 or so personal and business emails in my mailbox [...]

And despite rumors that it sometimes has that effect, Bad Behavior hasn’t melted down my host’s server, nor have I gotten any Montastic notices about server outages. Bad Behavior isn’t blocking 100%, but it is down to around 5 a day, from the over 100 it was, so that’s definitely a huge improvement.
I’m still [...]

Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer let 49 comment spams through overnight, despite the “default list” being beefed up considerably by the accumulated list of IP numbers and domains I’d added to it. Didn’t matter. Not only that, but some of the comments were from IP numbers on the list, or from keywords on the list, so that [...]

Well, one thing I like about Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer already is that it does NOT mess with comment moderation like every other anti comment spam plugin I tried did. Comments that are from posters who have not posted before (and are humans filling in the form the old fashioned way) go into moderation, which is [...]