Around 4:30am Eastern time today, some spammers discovered my blog, and began spam-commenting all across it. I've heard that other bloggers have had problems with asshole spammers posting comments to their blogs, but I had no idea how bad it could be. The spamhole must have an automated system, because there have been over 1,000 comments posted in the last 5 hours! :-O I've turned off the ability to comment on posts, and am going to try to clean things up. If anyone knows of an easy way to delete 1,000 blog comments, and/or a better way of turning off comments retroactively in blog posts (MovableType seems to only let me turn it off easily for future posts), then please email me. My address is "tomsubs" at the domain "contracheck.com". Thanks.
Posted by Tom Nugent at December 7, 2004 10:28 AM