Deleted Comments June 6, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , trackbackI just spent a wonderful week in South Wales, relaxing and resting after completing three years’ work for my degree. What a relief! And it didn’t even rain hardly at all, ( see photoset on Flickr)
On my return, there were over 350 spam comments on this blog, there seems to have been an epidemic recently, it’s not just me. So I set about deleting them using “mass edit mode” but I was tired at the time and carelessly carried on too far, dleting half a page of genuine comments as well. Oh no! Since I don’t get many comments at all, the deletions went right back to part of my online exhibition from March, so they need to be restored for historical purposes, which is probably going to involve hand crafting from the email notifications. How I hate doing work which doesn’t improve anything, but merely gets me back to where I was before. Grrr.
Most of the anti blog spam plugins are a little too drastic for my liking, so I’ll think carefully before inplementing any changes. Closing down comments on all posts over 21 days old, for example, seems like giving away far too much ground to the spammers.
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
That wordpress ‘akismet’ thing seems to be popular.
agree with Frankie, akismet should be a solution