Practical Useful

As it turns out, the problem was that some evil spammer had used a script to insert a bunch of comments all at once into the database before the spam protection was added. These are comments associated with postIDs that did not yet exist, so when a post was created that happened to have the same postID a nice fresh comment from the spammer was waiting for it (as detailed at
http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/#imm )

So I’ve hacked all of the offending entries out of the database and added some code to prevent such a thing happening again.

Annoying. Very annoying.

There is a special place in hell reserved for spammers.

Hmm… I could not get Spam Karma to work with the teadrinkingmonkey.org code at all, which is annoying, but thought “Fuck it, I’ll use Authimage instead.”. Now here’s the WIERD thing, the moment I make a new post there immediately appears a new comment from Free Casino or some such similar despite the Authimage hack.

I’ve edited the image it outputs to make it even less readable by OCR bots but it is still happening. Very, very strange.

Guess I’ll have to go back to the drawing board with Spam Karma… sigh.