A lot less spam

Yesterday I had a bit of extra time on my hands so I figured out and installed a plug in that closes comments  after a certain period of time.  I set this plug in to close comments on any post that was made prior to March 1 of this year.  So I was EXTREMELY happy to see that the amount of SPAM comments that I had to moderate was way….down this morning.  I honestly don’t understand why people would go into someone’s blog and post comments on seriously old posts, knowing that these comments would never be published.

So, because this plug in worked so well on this blog, I’m going to spend a little of my day today adding it all to my other blogs.  It was a great feeling knowing that I didn’t have to waste about an hour of my day sifting through all these spam comments.  Of course all the legit comments are approved and I don’t mind the time it takes to approve them, but the spam ones are gone….

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  1. no imagesting (Who am I?) Says:
    March 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    mind sharing how you install the plug? :-) I’ve also been getting lots of spam lately (sigh) and doubt if I will manage to detect those older posts’ comments…

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