Damn!
Jan 8th, 2009 by Anne-Marie
I’ve been on hols and came back to 2,700+ un-moderated comments (spam) on Archives Tragic. There were so many that they jammed things up and I could not deal with them in the normal way. In my efforts to delete them, it looks like I accidentally deleted some recent approved comments from Helen and Tim, and maybe others. I might also have deleted some non-spam comments from new contributors. Sorry guys.
This is one of the reasons that I’m closing Archives Tragic. If I ever do another blog I will certainly go for better spam filtering.
Anne-Marie
Wow! Heaps! Maybe you needed to upgrade the Wordpress version? Or you are just incredibly popular! I found that I had to close comments on all but the most recent posts, and then when it gets too much I close the comments on those too. Perhaps closing the comments does help, or later versions of Wordpress are better? Seems a shame to close comments because you might be denying people the opportunity to comment who discover you later (I once emailed a friend and asked him to re-open his comments just for me, and he did!).
Ah well, nice to have one more post from you. Happy new year!
Sigh. Yes you are right Helen. I should have upgraded to a newer version of WordPress ages ago. When AT was first set up I didn’t want to go for one of those systems where you have to login, or retype gobbledegook, in order to leave a comment. I wanted it to be as easy as possible. Now I know better (!) and if I’d upgraded when I should have done I would have done something about it. All this time I’ve been working more on the content of the site and not the the design or the technical stuff.
Anyway, thanks, happy new year to you too. Hope you keep your blog going.