Spammers

Today I got a pretty nasty surprise when I opened up my blog to check if there were any comments for me. Usually the spammers will just leave their vandalism on 3 or 4 blogposts and eventually make a spam trackback once in a while so that I have to use a few seconds for cleanup but today I just found out one spambot had gone to every commentable post on my blog leaving one comment at each thus forcing me to go through a lot. Luckily for me, I made comments close automatically when the post is more than 3 months old, but most of my posts are still very recent since I've just been in Taiwan for a little more than 2 months now.

That's unacceptable. Before it was just stupid random spamming, but this actually made me feel a little like someone making fun of me, (well, ofc. they're not but still... they can be bots but they definately have to die,) so I was willing to implement captchas even if they were going to annoy my visitors and myself most of all.

So I went and used my evening for plugging in an extention to BlogEngine that's called Askimet Extension. It's using Askimet which has an API that you can implement on your blog to prevent comment and trackback spam by checking it towards a database before letting content in. It's managed by the same people as are running wordpress and is free for any private person earning less than 500 US$ on his blogging business. By using this, I hope that I can keep spammers away. I won't know if it's working before some days have passed but I know there's no captcha's inside it, which surprises me actually.

Wish me luck. * Crossing Finger *

Btw: I uploaded more photos to the portal-thingy and am starting to put up tags on some of them. You should check it out.