I’m so mad I can hardly type (no, I mean worse than usual) at the moment. I’m extremely busy with work, and with the unannounced fact that I will be someone’s husband as of next Friday, and I just don’t have time to delete, much less combat, the onslaught of spam comments that have been hitting this website over the past few days. Up to this point, MT Blacklist had been doing a reasonable job of keeping comment spam to a dull roar and I was dutifully deleting and blacklisting what did get through. Unfortunately MT Blacklist stopped being developed in October of last year, and I can not figure out how to block a pattern that I’m seeing in the spam that should be extremely simple.
So it is with great regret that I close comments on all but the most recent of posts, a measure that will remain in place until I have the time to migrate this site over to a different content management system; something that I don’t foresee happening in the immediate future. When I do change tools I will try to do it with a minimum of disturbance to you the user, and most importantly, YOU the UltraMom who posts here most frequently. For now though, most comments occur on recent posts anyway so it shouldn’t really affect anyone, it’s mostly just the principal of the matter. Anyway, I’ll refrain from making my own, but rest assured I wholeheartedly agree with all the sentiments I’ve read over the years wishing harm, bad health, and trouble with the law to spammers.
P.S. If we were, through some bizarre twist, forced to look on the bright side, we might say that our webserver not having to check thousands of comment attempts against 3,000 anti-spam patterns might make the site a bit more responsive.
P.P.S. The spam comments were in fact SO easy to pick out that I was able to delete all but three of them in a matter of seconds with a direct SQL statement to the database. That makes it all the more frustrating that I can’t make mt-blacklist do it.
Its this big guy's turn for the spotlight. Just finished chatting with him on Skype and was struck, as always, by his insight and humor. Get well, Baby. Don't let that cold get the best of you. Take some Zicam.
UltraGirl
95.4
This girl has been lately leaving insightful comments on my posts, a move likely to ensure her a good ranking on the Oriko Leaderboard. Thanks, UltraGirl. I too am glad my camera returned from the Center of the Earth. And do give those cranberries another try.
UltraBob
95.3
k Has been a little busy, but hopefully that's good news for Akatombo Media. We keep missing each other on Skype, but we'll figure it out one of these days. Thanks for the comments. Someday I may finish writing about the trip!
Jim
95.2
Am a little disappointed cause I thought I was going to get to see this guy next weekend at Aunt Debi's wedding. Now he's not coming after all, which is probably a wise choice and all, but still drops him a bit in the Leaderboard ratings til I get over it. Give me another day or two. And he DID make me and UltraDad a super-awesome Anniversary Card with a fun guessing game. We're still waiting to hear....who won?
Heather
95.1
Hasn't been leaving comments, and refuses to share her taco dip recipe, but she did send UltraDad and me an absolutely gorgeous Anniversary card and cash for a dinner out, which we have already made use of. Thanks, Honey.
Polly
88.0
I'm going to leave this kitty up here ahead of the dogs for now. They are still barking at her at every juncture, and as far as I can see, the only thing she does to instigate it is to exist.
Murphy the Wonderdog
87.9
Doesn't bark at Polly as much as his little demon-brother, but does bark at said brother way too much. Murphy, you are the (relatively speaking) "Big Dog". If you want the chewbone Rowdy has, don't bark at him; take it away from him!
Rowdy
75.0
Still too much barking, and a little too much pooping and peeing in the house. Is starting to learn a few tricks, but is not as clever as Murphy in that way.
