Am I the only one who got mega-spammed comments this morning?
It sounds like someone got a new computer for Christmas and figured they'd act a complete damn fool with it.
Posted by mhking at December 26, 2004 04:11 PMI got it too. Repeatedly on the same five posts. Eveyr 15 minutes or so. I'm ashamed to say that it took until the fifth or sixth round of deleting and IP blocking before it finally occurred to me to shut down comments to those posts!
Posted by Stephen Macklin at December 26, 2004 09:51 PMHappened to me last night...I shut the comments down as I was deleting the comments, and haven't gotten any more.
Posted by Jennifer at December 26, 2004 10:32 PMI got crapflooded - which is slightly different, but even more annoying. Just random gibberish - it's designed to clog up MT Blacklist to the point that it doesn't work anymore.
It's not just spammers now, it's open war.
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 26, 2004 11:23 PMThey're really obnoxious, aren't they? I ended up using a SQL query to clean up Munuviana. If anyone is feeling overwhelmed, I can do the same for other blogs (though I'm hesitant to just do it across the whole database).
MT 3 with the new Blacklist filed this crap as requiring approval. I still had to go and delete it, but it was much easier.
I'll be setting up more MT3 blogs for people today.
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 27, 2004 01:26 AMHow do you shut down comments? I would love to do this.
Thanks.
Posted by Dave at December 27, 2004 01:34 AMChange the "allow comments" setting on a post to "closed".
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 27, 2004 02:05 AM