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Category : annoying + internet + software

So I spent the better half of my morning today playing spam warrior. Apparently there’s an exponential upsurge in spam hitting everyone or I’ve been targeted. So far I’ve received a whopping 500 spam comments in the past 24 hours and as soon as I cleared it there were a dozen more. All of this has forced me to rethink some of the discussion policies due to the dramatic increase of retardation from people attempting to peddle boner medication, sex sites and everything in between.

A quick check on Akismet stats proves I’m not alone, and that’s only mildly reassuring. But still it has stirred me up enough to want to cause physical harm to the idiots behind a few addresses who’s servers are mindlessly pushing all this crap. Am I wrong in thinking that people don’t fall for this crap anymore? Or is this part of some larger endgame?

Because after over 900 failed attempts (500 of which occurred in the past 24 hours) at spamming me, they still persist. Two IP addresses - 81.95.146.227 and 81.177.22.236 - have been hitting non-stop commenting dozens of times every few minutes. And for some odd reason my rewrite rules to block them didn’t even appear to have much of an effect, which makes me think I need to check those rules for errors. Either way whoever coded these spam bots is a total fucking moron.

For the meantime I’ve pulled commenting and pings on older posts as I figure out how to solve this. I’ll leave the latest post open for comments to see what happens, based upon the trend I’ve seen it appears that a majority of the spam is targeted at older open posts. So there’s a good chance they’re only bottom feeders hitting on stuff that’s cached elsewhere.

Either way, it’s fairly pathetic that some advertisers and businesses stoop so low if they’re legitimate while trying to get their “business” noticed. I’ll admit that it’s noticed, but not in the good way. And if I were to have the pleasure of meeting the owners of this “business” and their spammy offspring I’d love to introduce my baseball bat to all their computer equipment.

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