Comment spam has gone mental. I just deleted 155 comments, and that was from two days. What’s the point? I have a readership in single figures! I probably don’t even have that, considering the paucity of updates these days. Who is your market? Plus, I’ve gone moderation-mad, so your comment will never ever appear on the site! Why are you doing this? I guess I’ll have to stop comments entirely if this carries on. Not that any real people comment any more (because of no readers, as mentioned), so what the hell? I guess I am only doing this for my own amusement.
Like everything.
There are other ways to contact me, I suppose. Email, Twitter, tracking me down to my place of work. The usual things people do when they want a word.
Yeah, not sure my wife, my sister-in-law and my site’s host commenting really disproves my point here…
sniggers @ comment by anise….MrMoth, are we all hollogramic readers then? tsk. and I never knew. I can stop eating real food now, and having real showers. Cor, I can even stop doing the real housework…
[finger hovers over “Mark as spam” button]
Anyway, I do only have a single-figure readership.
“Not that any real people comment any more (because of no readers, as mentioned), so what the hell? I guess I am only doing this for my own amusement.” —- Are you 12? Is your life pain? Are you also most scared of what is inside you?
Solution: Somewhere under “Plugins” WordPress has something called “akismet”. If you enable this (slightly complicated, once enabled you need to get a key code from akismet.com) almost all your spam will be thrown out without you even seeing it. You can review the queue of the last 30 days if you care enough, but it’s generally good enough.