It has been more than two weeks since I have posted anything here. This has been one of the longest periods of time between posts to this blog. I had been on a two week vacation, and I have taken a vacation from posting here. And during that time, I have taken time to think of what I do not usually take time to think about. It may have been important for me to think of why I have set this unwritten rule of having blog posts no more than a fortnight apart. It may be best for me to only post here when I have something to write about. And as I like to keep this blog updated, I need to keep myself busy in order to have material to write about. However, I have taken this vacation in order to avoid being busy. So about that all I have to write is this explanation for the lack of material posted here to the few who read what I write.
However, during this vacation, I have taken time to make one change to this blog. One change that might have previously been noticed is that there was a CAPTCHA installed here for a short period of time. After discovering how little the CAPTCHA was doing to prevent spam from being posted here, I installed Akismet. After installing Akismet, I was finally once again able to not be concerned about manually marking posts as spam. I was also able to disable the CAPTCHA, as it became redundant after the installation of Akismet. I apologize to those who would prefer not to solve CAPTCHAs to post comments, although installing a CAPTCHA seemed to be a good idea when I first installed it. I have also been working on my own WordPress plugin for bloggers who want information about who is trying to post spam on their blogs. I am not sure how much more work on WordPress plugins I will do in the future. However, I can tell you that this plugin will be released before long, now that I have returned from this vacation.
Submit this entry to any of these sites: del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit blogmarks Google Spurl StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!
2 Comments
Ah yes, Akismet saved my blogging-life too. Could be interesting to learn more about who is trying to post spam comments — though what can be done with that information, I wonder? It seems really hard, like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon, or whatever that expression is that I am completely mutilating.
There was a time that I noticed that many spam comments were coming from the same few IP addresses. So what I would do was blacklist these IP addresses. A plugin like the one that I am working on can give information on which IP addresses to blacklist. Akismet may already filter spam so that blacklists would not be necessary. Still, I find that Akismet makes CAPTCHAs for posting comments unnecessary, and CAPTCHAs do get used. A plugin that gives information about who is trying to post spam can be useful, and I will write more about that later.
Post a Comment