*cries*

[ellenmillion]

Comment spammed again. A few hundred, this time. (edit: more than 350...)

So much for whatever I was going to do this morning...

Oh, and great... they're using a rotating IP, and posting faster than I can delete the things.

Comments

[marrael.livejournal.com]

Sorry... :< I had one spammer on my journal today and I thought that was bad.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Bleh. Very, very frustrating. I've turned off all commenting (adopting) for the morning and have to hope they'll get bored and leave the site alone so I can turn them back on this afternoon...

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

Does the regular commenting get enough activity of sufficient interest/usefulness to make it worthwhile having to deal with comment spam?

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

It's actually vital to the adopting service as it stands right now - the 'comments' are actually adoptions, and a piece with a 'comment' shows up as adopted on the site. Which makes the comment spam particularly frustrating, of course, since I've got to keep the stupid spam comments deleted or all the portraits are showing as adopted.

[fireborn.livejournal.com]

(This has probably already been considered/discussed, but....) Have you thought about going with something that would require a registration before commenting? Slows the process down a bit from the user's end but speeds it up considerably from yours.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I like the idea! It's a ways outside of my coding comfort, unfortunately. (Honest, I just fiddle with codes until they break, go back a step, and that's where I stay...) And yay - Jennie just uploaded a script that should stop anyone trying to comment with more than X number of links. (Which would have caught every one of these spams, but not a single valid adoption!)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Are you still using Greymatter, or are you using something else? You might want to think about changing to a different blog software...

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Yes, still with greymatter - but not for long! Jennie's working on a mySQL-based thingy with a HUGE improvement in flexibility that's more capable of dealing with the number of entries that I've got... the searches are getting spine-numbingly slow, so it was time for a change no matter what. In the meantime, there's a code in place now that won't allow comments with any links in 'em, and that should put a cap on the spam comments. (Try it! The error message is pretty funny. :P)

[gossamerfaery.livejournal.com]

UGH! What a pain in the *@%!!!! May their keyboard rise up and beat them in the head;)