All Hail Akismet!
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Well, after a really really long procrastination I finally got around to updating my blog software (i.e. this webpage). I am most happy to see the Akismet spam-detecting web service is installed by default with the latest version of WordPress. After signing up for an API key you simply activate the service in the control panel and it automatically deletes comments and trackbacks that it detects as spam. It’s a smart system so if anyone of the thousands (or more!) users submits a comment as spam that Akismet didn’t catch, it will learn by analyzing the content of the comment and start blocking it on other users’ blogs. Friggin’ awesome!
I had to delete about 800 old comments that were full of ads for every imaginable kind of porn, pills, shoes, identity theft, blah, blah, blah. So that was fun. Except not.
Anyway, I’m happy to announce that comments have been re-enabled, which will hopefully make this place a little more lively.
I want to work on updating my website, but now that I have spent my entire summer travelling and learning Spanish as well as working full time, there doesn’t seem to be much time left now that school is starting back up again.
Oh, and I just noticed that as I’m typing this post WordPress is automatically saving a draft every few seconds to make sure I don’t lose anything! Sweet!
Well, after a really really long procrastination I finally got around to updating my blog software (i.e. this webpage). I am most happy to see the Akismet spam-detecting web service is installed by default with the latest version of WordPress. After signing up for an API key you simply activate the service in the control panel and it automatically deletes comments and trackbacks that it detects as spam. It’s a smart system so if anyone of the thousands (or more!) users submits a comment as spam that Akismet didn’t catch, it will learn by analyzing the content of the comment and start blocking it on other users’ blogs. Friggin’ awesome!
I had to delete about 800 old comments that were full of ads for every imaginable kind of porn, pills, shoes, identity theft, blah, blah, blah. So that was fun. Except not.
Anyway, I’m happy to announce that comments have been re-enabled, which will hopefully make this place a little more lively.
I want to work on updating my website, but now that I have spent my entire summer travelling and learning Spanish as well as working full time, there doesn’t seem to be much time left now that school is starting back up again.
Oh, and I just noticed that as I’m typing this post WordPress is automatically saving a draft every few seconds to make sure I don’t lose anything! Sweet!
