So. I read this bit about automatic spam detection on Circumlocution For Dummies. That got me to thinking: I've set up a few spinoff blogs over the years that I've been pretty much ignoring. The idea was that they would just repost selected blog entries on specific topics - gardening, computers, astronomy - and I would get very specifically targeted Google Ads to appear on them. But after setting them up with a few initial posts, I sort of forgot about them for...a while.
After I started getting spammed relentlessly by a psychotic racist during the 2008 presidential campaign I set up comment moderation on Another Monkey and left it on. I've also got my other blogs set to automatically email me comments for review. I think. I've caught a few spammy ones on one of them recently, of the sort that say something meaningless like "Nice post, visit my online gaming casino site" with a link back to their site. But I got to wondering if I'd done this with all of my other blogs.
Obviously not. The first post I checked on one of those long-neglected blogs had 110 comments. The first one - and probably many of the others that followed - was from the psychotic racist. From back in 2008.
I've got some work to do. Time to take out the trash. And change some settings on those blogs.
Waning gibbous, February 20, 2022, 3:45 AM
2 years ago
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