Disruptive Library Technology Jester

I’m throwing in the towel on blog spam — sort of. No, I’m not turning off comments and trackbacks. What I am doing — or, rather, what I’m going to stop doing — is going through the spam logs in search of legitimate comments. Why? This is why:





This blog is using the Akismet Spam Filter and according to their statistics 93% of all comments are spam. Akismet is doing a very good job on DLTJ with only a handful of false negatives and even fewer false positives. The quantity of spam here recently topped 100 a day, which in and of itself isn’t so bad. The last straw was the arrival of the latest blog spam programs that submit comments several dozens of kilobytes in length.

Update! In January 2007 quite a bit of comment spam seem to be leaking through the Akismet filter, so on January 24th I added the Bad Behavior plugin to the arsenal. If your post is blocked by Bad Behavior, the author of the plugin has some suggestions on why your comment was blocked and how to fix the problem. Let me know if you get caught and can’t seem to fix it yourself.

So, if your comment does not show up immediately, contact me and I’ll retrieve it from DLTJ’s spam purgatory. Since no other form of moderation is enabled on DLTJ, comments normally appear as soon as they submitted. If you don’t see it, something abnormal has happened. Apologies in advance if that happens.