j's scratchpad

It’s probably no coincidence that this blog seems to get hit with comment spam near and during holidays. I stayed offline Monday as a treat to myself for President’s Day. Tuning in Tuesday morning, I find 30-something comment spams. Not a lot by any means, but enough to be annoying. I don’t want to have to worry about cleaning it off before I go to sleep. I got hit much harder with comment spam close to Christmas. Timing these incidents with holidays could just be coincidence, but it makes a lot of sense to me for these spammers to try to aim for times when people are likely to be away from their computers to add a bunch of bogus links to blogs through comment and trackback spam.

While deleting the comment spam, I’m finding piles and piles of trackback spam. It’s too bad Manila doesn’t have notification of trackbacks or some way to view only trackbacks like it does comments. Either one (or preferably both) options would give us some control over trackback spam on our blogs. Right now, we have no way to, well, track down trackbacks to figure out which ones are spam or not other than combing through the entire blog and clicking on every trackback link with one or more trackbacks. Tedious.

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