Spam, Spam Everywhere!

Posted by Ranillon on 4. November 2009 18:21

As I hope you haven't noticed comment spam has been plaguing this blog.  I've been watching like a hawk to delete the stuff as fast as I can, but the number of bogus comments has been going up.  So, I installed an extension that uses the Akismet (free) service to scan comments before they post.  This should remove the spam, but there is a small chance it might accidentally register your post as a false positive.  Sorry in advance if that happens.

However, there is a bit of irony about this I wanted to pass along -- the spam comment that finally tipped me over the edge to load the new extension was from a site selling LARP (Live Action Role-Playing) foam weapons. 

So, now gaming companies are spamming.  You want gaming to be taken seriously, but sheesh!

That's just depressing.