Site update – Comment SPAM…again!
By Marc • Dec 29th, 2004 • Category: the SiteWell, since it looks like the trencaspammers plugin has holes big enough to drive a Mac truck through, I’ve managed to switch back to Gudlyf’s Authimage plugin. As far as I can tell, it’s working fine. I’m gonna get to work on hacking the plugin itself to change the colors to something more suited to my site here.
Marc is a Catholic technology geek living in Tennessee. He blogs at Wild Tangents and is the host of the Catholic Vocations Podcast.
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Cool. I got the colors for Authimage changed to fit the website!
Marc, I entered the wrong code and almost didn’t get my previous comment posted even if I re-entered the correct code. I had to reload the page to get another code and re-enter my comments. It doesn’t seems to be a good idea for a non-WP users. Maybe you should consider passing the comments to moderation mode when a wrong code is entered.
I thought I read about a fix to this where you can have it post a page saying the code was invalid, which then reloads the comment page with all the data (name,email, URI and comments) intact. I’ll have to look around for that.
I was also expecting that. Everything did shown up except for the comment and the new code.
The spammers hit me continously since last night until this afternoon. I gave up deleting their comments. I was forced to reconfigure AuthImage and dump comments until the right code is entered.
By the way, I’ve found the hack to generate a new authorization code when clicking the back button upon entering a wrong code. My only problem now is how to keep the message in the comment field.