Commenting temporarily suspended

February 20, 2009 by Chris Metcalf | 1 comment

I’m weathering a bit of a comment spam storm right now, and Akismet seems blind to it, so I’ve temporarily turned off commenting in WordPress. Hopefully in a few hours they’ll either give up or Akismet will start properly flagging them as spam. I’ll update this post when commenting is re-enabled.

Update: It would probably help if I actually had the Akismet plugin activated. Boys and girls, always remember to re-enable all your plugins after updating WordPress. Comments are open again.

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  1. Tony’s avatar

    Tony on March 1, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Chris, sorry you’re being spammed… don’t spamdunk me just yet.

    An interesting but longstanding issue relates to the Tarski theme displaying “no comments” when the comments count is zero. Do visitors think comments are closed? I decided to write a post about it. Hope it helps!

    http://tonytrainor.com/journal/2009/03/do-you-really-want-no-comments-on-your-blog/

    For no spam, use Akismet and one other spam catcher plugin combined!