Ahem!
Now before you go on thinking whether I’ve lost my virginity, just for the record, I’m not talking about THAT sort of protection. (I’m against contraceptives anyway).
The way I have set up my comments management system to work is that if somone drops me a comment on my blog, an email will be sent to notify me and I would need to approve the comment. I’m sure millions of people are doing this anyway. But last month and just until a couple of days ago, I started recieving lots of spam comments which required my moderation. Intially I thought it was just ‘one of those days’ where my anti-spam filter was just acting up and so I need not worry to much. But the spam comments became worse and worse, till I was getting about 30-40 a day. I knew then something was wrong, but thanks to my stupid internet connection, opening my own blog’s main page was a challenge, let alone enter my dashboard and moderate the comments!
Finally, while at work today, I decided to access my blog and lo and behold, there were 255+ comments waiting for my approval. Yes all 100% were spam and so I had the arduous task of cleaning up my comment box. And I found out the culprit behind this shenanigan – It was my akismet! It wasn’t activated at all! I found this to be quite applaing and shocked, because…since when did I even diactivate akismet?
Hmm, they ought to open an x file for blogs too 😛
So what happens when you don’t use blog protection? – you have crap to deal with later!
HA HA HA
