This is rather interesting

By TheWeeJenny • March 14, 2008

I switched my 301 redirect to make the url default to theweejenny.net rather than www.theweejenny.net (I know there was a reason I chose www once upon a time but I can’t remember what it is anymore) and the constant trickle of spam trackbacks and comments stopped.

Now I’ll have to find something to do to look busy besides deleting spam and optimizing the database.

Categories: Web
Tags: spam

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TheWeeJenny

An artist based in New Westminster BC, Canada, TheWeeJenny is involved in several mediums including Wire Sculpted jewellery, traditional and computer-assisted drawing, Web Design, and assorted crafts. She's also an avid gamer and self-professed Nerd, who incidentally feels slightly uncomfortable writing about herself in third-person. O.o

4 Responses to “ This is rather interesting ”

Tony Mar 14th, 2008 at 7:30 am

Do you have Akismet set up? That has helped me a lot.
TheWeeJenny Mar 14th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Yup. It’s just that I was getting something like 50 - 100 a day in the “waiting to be deleted” pile, and now it seems that I’m either getting none or Akismet is now deleting them all automatically.

I almost wrote a post when my akismet count was “OVER NINE THOOOOOOOOOUSAND!” but I thought that might be cheezy.
Tony Mar 14th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

I guess it’s good that at least it was being caught and not posted lol.
TheWeeJenny Mar 15th, 2008 at 12:52 am

Ooooh yeah, that would’ve been bad. *lol* I find the simplest thing to do is set it so that no comments are posted unless the author has had one comment approved before. Saves a lot of headaches. ^_^

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