December 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 am (The Funky Olive, Things that make me happy, ramblings)
I’ve just checked and my little wonder plugin Askimet seems to be doing his job. He’s managed to nab three spammy comments. YAY! I feel my sanity slowly coming back to me. What a wonderful feeling! I think Askimet is my new hero! Well, maybe, but I’ve always been a sucker for a Working Class Hero though.
Yep, that would be a new design from the Funky Olive Shop!
December 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm (I'm mad as hell!, ramblings)
Arrgh! I was getting really close to pulling the plug on this blog with all the damn spam comments I’ve been getting lately. We’re talking 144 of them since I posted that last post about spam. That’s insane! I don’t have time to waste checking out all these email notices of a new comment to be moderated. And it’s like I get one from one spam bot, and then I keep getting a whack of them from the same spammer. That was enough to drive me whacko! I was desperately trying to figure out this wordpress blog and how I could activate this askimet plugin that is supposed to help with the spam, but I couldn’t get the damned plugin working without the missing api key that I finally figured out how to get. What a nightmare it’s been! Anyway, I have the api key, the askimet and a wee bit of patience and sanity left, so I’ll keep it rolling and see how things go. It’s not like I have a whole lot to say, but when I want to ramble on it’s nice to have a place to come and hang my hat.