Over the weekend I put in some code to filter out comment spam on my blog. Most of it is Garrison’s code that has proven to be 100% effective on his site. I also added in a few heuristics of my own design. If you make a comment that it thinks is spam, it won’t be lost, but I’ll have to approve it. But that shouldn’t happen unless you include a lot of links (most of the checks are on referrer and user agent).
I’m not sure why someone is going out of their way to invest their advertising efforts on the five people who regularly read my blog. I guess you guys are really cool or something.
May 8, 1:23 pm
Damn straight we’re really cool. I mean, if I wasn’t me, I’d probably go out of my way to try and leave poker websites for me to click on too.
May 10, 1:40 pm
Visit this poker/hooker/nigerian prince/free software/watches/pr0n/viagra/cialis/stock-tip site!
http://www.i-lost-all-my-money-to-a-poker-playing-hooker-who-was-the-daughter-of-a-nigerian-prince-because-i-couldnt-get-it-up-and-invested-all-my-money-in-a-pr0n-site-which-was-run-on-free-windows-software-that-i-stole-from-a-pot-smoking-one-armed-german-midget-who-got-a-free-tag-heuer-watch-that-said-tag-hour.tv
May 10, 1:48 pm
I visited that site you recommended Jason and got chlamydia...
May 10, 2:10 pm
The best thing about Kip and Stephanie’s site is that they’re big on the Ku Klux Klan. If you search google for “Grand Wizards Of The Aryan Brotherhood” the first result is “Kip and Stephanie’s Blog”.
Is there something you’re not telling us Kip?
May 11, 2:18 am
HA! It’s not broken anymore!
I learned that CSS doesn’t have an elegant way of dealing with overflowing text. I’d want it to wrap the text at the end of the line, mid-word (if the word is longer than the whole line). You know, the way every text editor, word processor, console, or otherwise rational program would do. But you can’t. So you’re stuck with scroll bars in Firefox, and clipped text in IE. IE is supposed to support the scroll bars, but it’s not working for me. It’s probably something I’m doing wrong in my 6-layer-deep nested table nightmare.. I really need to redesign and use div’s instead.. but that’s a task I’ll leave for when I get super bored.
To Microsoft’s credit, the “text-overflow: ellipsis;” attribute is a nice addition to CSS, and should really make its way into the standard. Also to Microsoft’s credit, they realized that text can be broken across lines on a hyphen, whereas the Firefox guys didn’t (and I’m sure they had some BS “good reason” for not breaking on hyphens.. probably something having to do with compatibility with Polish language keyboards or dialing wands for the obese).
May 11, 7:44 am
overflow:auto seems to work for me, but its in a div and not a table, and it sounds like this thing is a bunch of tables, which break if you put super long pr0n/spam links in.
May 11, 1:17 pm
Well... they don’t break anymore. :)