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January 20, 2004

Ok, maybe I asked for it. Over the past few days as everyone has been getting massive blog spam, I was feeling pretty smug. Since I implemented my simple spam counter-measures, I've received about 5 spams a week, each of which only takes about 15 seconds to delete.

I knew my system was FAR from inviolable, but I felt that it wouldn't be worth a spammers time to work around them, when I had shown an obvious commitment to deleting spam. So far, I have been proven completely right.

Apparently though, it is worth some no-talent script-kiddy's time to write a script specifically to junk up my blog. Today I got hit with about 2000 junk posts in about a 5 second period (yeah, should've updated MT earlier, but life is busy). These weren't spam posts - they didn't have any content other than random characters, they didn't link anywhere - they were just pure vandalism. Some little shit giggling in his parent's basement as he used his daddy's computer to waste my time. Just makes you wish someone would throw a little bleach in the gene pool.

So, what is the result? Well, like everyone else, I'm disabling comments for now. I hate the fact that one moron with low self-esteem can ruin things for everyone, but I don't have a choice until I have more time in which to update MT, and look at other solutions for countering idiocy like this.

I promise I'll post more in February too, life has just been a rollercoaster ride.

Blah.

Posted @ 05:33 PM by Grant | TrackBack