Avian’s Blog

I must again admit that I was again defeated by spammers. My clever plan to use bogofilter to separate real comments from spam wasn't exactly successful. Here are some reasons why:

• Spammers got sophisticated and inserted random prose into comments (just like they're doing it in email these days.
• Sheer amount of spam bots browsing the site was quite a load for my limited net connection.
• Spam comments were still available through the link show comments marked as spam and were so still indexed by Googlebot. Although the comments contained no links I still don't want my site to be known to Google as a giant advertisement for questionable products. It wasn't possible to prevent Googlebot from going through these comments with robots.txt.

Currently I just don't want to bother with this any more. I feel I already spent way too much time trying to find a way to get comments working on this site without spam (and without CAPTCHAs) and honestly I just don't think it's worth it. If you have a comment, just send it by email (I'm already used to getting tons of spam there).