Given how I am now constantly getting spammers using my comments to post whatever foreign scams they are trying to pull, I have changed commenting to allow me to moderate the commentary before it gets posted. I have now allowed OpenIDs to comment though.
Not that I get a lot of commentary at all, but it really sucks to get a notification someone replied to one of my posts, and its some effing non English speaking spammer trying their scummy nonsense that probably wouldn't even confuse a 90 year old grannie at this point. (A Glenn Beck fan? Probably. But normal decent people? Nope!)
So that's a change for now. Maybe later if I somehow get enough active readers commenting on stuff I will go back to non approval comments as to allow interesting discussions, but for the time being I have to stand up against spammer scum.
Expect an actual gaming related post sometime in the next 10 hours. I didn't even go play Warhammer 40K today to prepare for my next gaming project.
Zero tolerance is the only way to go. I found that adding ReCaptcha and moderation on posts older than ~2 weeks cut out most of the SPAM.
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