Combatting comment spam again

After a solid week of spammers throttling the Gadgetizer.com comment forms to the point where the server was slowing down, I went and set up a script to automatically close commenting on posts more than 10 days old. Both Tiago and I were worn out logging in each day and having to delete dozens of spam comments that somehow slipped past the word filters. Something had to be done.

It sucks because a lot of the older posts were still getting occasional comments from people coming in through search engines, but now at least we only have to deal with deleting a handful of spam on 30-40 posts rather than 600.

*Sigh* I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this.

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