Anti-Spam Security Has Been Breached

November 16th, 2007 at 11:00 am (Miscellaneous)

So after the day of my birthday I got slapped with over 900 comments to be moderated. Cue the power of pain. ;_;

I have to do something.

Noticing that without some anti-spam plugins on my blog, and with Akismet not active (since I need a WordPress.com API key for it to work), the current WP comment moderation mechanism is like a neutered dog. As safeguard from even possible magnanimous comment moderation work on my to-do list, I have (as of now) activated the following options:

  1. Users must be registered and logged in to comment
  2. An administrator must always approve the comment
  3. Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
  4. Comment author must have a previously approved comment
In case your comment gets detained by the WP anti-spam security forces, I will try to work around this temporary situation until I can further beef up security.

Have your say.