December 04, 2004
We've been hit!
I am not sure whether to feel honored or pissed. Two days ago we were hit by comment spam. Our little site went from having just 41 comments to having over 1000. This isn't the first time we have been spammed. We have previously had ads for Propecia and Gay Porn left in the comments to posts. This recent incident however, was on a much grander scale. We were targeted over a 10-12 hour period and hit from dozens of different IP addresses, this I assume is to make it harder for us to block them in the future. I just finished going through each post and deleting anywhere from one to as many as 30 comments. I have now turned off allowing HTML in comments. You are now required to leave a name and e-mail address, no more anonymous commenting. I have also blocked a large number of IP addresses from being able to leave comments. I would just like to to know how they found us. I know that none of our huge and loyal fan base would have tipped off the spammers, so where did they come from? Does this mean that we have finally hit the big time? Are we attracting enough viewers the spammers think they can make some money off of us? I guess only time will tell.
Posted by Ripley at December 4, 2004 02:42 PM
Feel Pissed. I get an e-mail for every damn comment left on the site. In the space of a day I got 1400+ email. Having spent my life avoiding notice of any sort this kind of popularity just makes me queasy. I have yet to delete them all and highly encourage any think of sending me an e-mail to give it a week or two.
Posted by: DJDuk at December 4, 2004 09:49 PM
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