Friday, July 06, 2012

Comments Restored

This morning CD was hit with a spam attack about 9 a.m. ET, and I had to temporarily change the comment setting to stop the incoming spam advertisements from being posted to every CD post.   Now that the attack has been foiled, the comment policy is back to normal.  

16 Comments:

At 7/06/2012 9:43 AM, Blogger Jon Murphy said...

Man, those spammers are annoying!

 
At 7/06/2012 9:45 AM, Blogger Jon Murphy said...

I wonder, just throwing this out there, but if you had a comment system similar to that at Cafe Hayek where you need a Facebook account to post comments, would that stop the problem?

I am assuming, however, that you view this as a large enough problem to consider a radical change to the blog.

 
At 7/06/2012 9:58 AM, Blogger Methinks said...

Um...No, Jon. The Cafe was spammed a few days ago. Did you miss the well-endowed and scantily clad lady advertising old women to young men in the comment section?

 
At 7/06/2012 10:00 AM, Blogger bart said...

And it's trivial for spammers to get a Facebook account.

 
At 7/06/2012 10:00 AM, Blogger juandos said...

"you need a Facebook account to post comments"...

What if not everyone is sucked in by the shallow attraction of facebook?

 
At 7/06/2012 10:00 AM, Blogger Jon Murphy said...

Did you miss the well-endowed and scantily clad lady advertising old women to young men in the comment section?

I did miss that.

 
At 7/06/2012 10:32 AM, Blogger Moe said...

I will now have the Monty Python Spam song ringing in my head all day. (could be worse I guess)

 
At 7/06/2012 10:33 AM, Blogger Junkyard_hawg1985 said...

I heard the spammers were located at a hostel located somewhere in San Fransico. One person's "aspiring tech entrepreneur is often another person's spammer.

 
At 7/06/2012 10:55 AM, Blogger Jon Murphy said...

I will now have the Monty Python Spam song ringing in my head all day. (could be worse I guess)

Dammit, man! Now I am going to have it stuck in my head all day

 
At 7/06/2012 11:44 AM, Blogger Mike said...

I put up my first embedded Vimeo clip today. On a blog that no one reads, all of a suddent the spammers have gone crazy.

 
At 7/06/2012 1:51 PM, Blogger Moe said...

Jon,

There's always Barry Manilow's "Copacabana"

 
At 7/06/2012 2:12 PM, Blogger Mike said...

Dr. Perry,

I was just skimming through and saw a comment posted (two above this one) from Mike. Speaking of hackers and spam and login...shouldn't each commenter have a unique name to avoid confusion?
As far as I know, I'm the only "Mike" here.

 
At 7/06/2012 2:45 PM, Blogger Andrew_M_Garland said...

Facebook commenting is miserable, because FB doesn't respect HTML. No bolding, quoting, or links. FB commenting is a terrible choice.

 
At 7/06/2012 3:19 PM, Blogger Jon Murphy said...

shouldn't each commenter have a unique name to avoid confusion?

That's why I started using my (presumably real) last name and a picture. At first, I was just "Jon", then there was another nutjob named "Jon." To separate my comments from his paranoid rantings, I added the name and picture.

 
At 7/06/2012 6:00 PM, Blogger Mike said...

Jon Murphy,

aaaah....I didn't know. Well, I'll wait and see what the other Mike has to say. If he turns out to be smart, I'll take credit for his posts.
For now, anything posted under "Mike" that you believe to be idiotic, feel free to assume it's the new guy.

 
At 7/07/2012 7:49 AM, Blogger O-Lan said...

Please check this out - it's a good first step: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42520

 

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