Hi guys, just a little update on the status of this blog. Because I got a lot of spam, I´ve looked for – and found – a convenient Anti-Spam-Plugin for WordPress.
Now every time somebody is trying to post a comment, a (simple) question is asked to confirm, that the wouldbe-poster is a human being, and not a spam-bot.
This has proofed to be a very effective way of blocking spambots, because these programs can´t think logical, so they can´t answer any questions where they have to “think” about the answer (yet.)
Captchas sadly are mostly useless at the present, because even the more complicated captcha scripts are being cracked rather quickly.
So, for human users it´s just a small inconvenience, while blocking 99% of spam messages.
So please excuse the small “puzzle” (it´s easy to answer for most of you), but it saves me a lot of time I would spend in deleting spam-posts.
Yeh, my blog got stung by a Bot as well by some outfit selling coats – no problem, enhanced my security (like you), deleted the spam then went to their site and posted the cr*p they sent me back on their own blog page – payback big time!
Maybe that will teach them…
Well, let´s hope it works
I do wonder, though, why spammers keep doing that – I don´t know anyone who isn´t annoyed by this kind of “commercial”, and I don´t know anyone who would ever buy anything advertised in a spam. So, why are they wasting our time?