I Don’t Eat Spam For Breakfast…

September 4th, 2008

Personal Rants

I’m sick and tired of all the useless non-sense that goes into blog comment spam. I know it’s getting harder and harder to bypass all the crazy filters and steps needed to post a legitimate comment on a popular site but when does the madness stop? I’m actually a bit entertained by the useless randomness that makes up most blog spam these days, although deleting each rouge comment is becoming a pain.

To help lighten the work load I have with deleting unapproved spam-related comments, I’ve put into effect a simple spam prevention method that I hope works out well. It’s clean, neat, and doesn’t require you to read a bunch of funny text. I hate that! This one is strictly geek — based on simple math.

You can do simple math, right?

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About Richard

Richard is a professional web developer and business consultant. He opened his first web hosting company at the age of 13 out of his bedroom on an ISDN connection and hasn't looked back since. Richard currently resides in sunny Florida.

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2 Responses to “I Don’t Eat Spam For Breakfast…”

  1. Richard

    I’m using WordPress to power this blog with my own custom design. WordPress is a content management system that gives me a lot of features that I just make look pretty, such as the ability to leave comments. The spam protection is an add-on that works with WordPress.

    WordPress is a free download at wordpress.org and it’s very easy to install and use.

  2. Nathan

    Hey Richard,

    Im making a website using iWeb 09 and i want a comment box.
    I like your design is it possible for you to tell me how you got yours or give me something of similar design.
    I also want to add spam protection dosent have to be math but if it can be it would be great.
    I know your busy and im sorry to bother you.

    Nathan