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The *arms race is on*. And it didn't take long for _internet casino_ and somesuch to catch on to my new blog. Assholes. And because I don't want to spend my whole day moderating comments, here's what I did: * installed the "Autoclose comments after XX days plugin":http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Auto%20shutoff%20comments * installed the "Reject comments from blacklisted ip adresses plugin":http://charles.gagalac.us/wordpress-plugins/ip-blocklist/ * lowered link threshold to "2" and blacklisted some words "as this page suggests":http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/#one Interestingly, "tamba2 or whatever their name is":http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/ also has assembled a "long list of plugins to tackle spam":http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/#two, but it's actually *too long*. I won't be bothered to go through them all to find which one that suits me. Suggestions appreciated, but let's just see how my current attempts play out. As for the spammers. I think they're maybe from outer space trying to wreck the internet. And then they can point and say: "what a feeble civilization". Or something. _Update:_ Disappointlingly, Wordpress' internal comment options *don't seem to have any effect*. I can still comment with links to casinos. Urrgh. _Update 2:_ Well, I was a bit quick on that one. WordPress actually does auto-hide comments that contain too many links, I just did a very bad job in writing the a tags in my test comments. Cool bananas. _Update 3:_ After six poker comments in the last two hours, I've given in and installed "a security code plugin":http://coffelius.arabandalucia.com/ . It displays a garbled image, with the security code embedded within. Youknow, like gmail has. And others. Sorry for the inconvenience.