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I don’t view my WordPress dashboard very frequently, so I’d missed that the Stop Spammers Registration plugin had trapped 75 registrations/commenters it shouldn’t have, some of whom are regular commenters here.

Nor did I know where the UI was for that. (I do now and have whitelisted all 75 of you.)

I’m sure 75 sounds like a lot, but let me give you context here.

OpenID Change

A while back, I switched from one openID plugin to another because the one I had been using was not being maintained. The new one apparently let through a lot more spam registrations than the previous one did—to the point where that was more than half of my email.

Then I installed the Stop Spammer Registrations plugin. Blissful quiet.

Stop Spammers in total has stopped 33,680 spammers since 2014/02/26.

stop-spammers-breakdown

And, unfortunately, 75 legit folks. (As well as possibly more who didn’t say, “Hey!”)

Almost Half Were Cache Problems

There’s a joke in computer science:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. —Phil Karlton

My host sometimes needs to service machines and switches me over without me noticing. This invalidates cache, and Stop Spammer Registration latches onto that like a fierce little puppy and growls.

Why? Because invalid cache is a security attack vector, unfortunately.

An Added Bonus

Ever looked at your Akismet spam queue? Even after setting it to delete the worst, I used to have 50-100 per day. Now I get 1-2 per week.

Though…

I’m going to look at the settings and see if anything needs to be tweaked.

Originally published at deirdre.net. You can comment here or there.

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If you see this, I haven’t moved yet (unless it’s edited to show I’ve moved).

The why is more complicated. There was over a month of outage on this web site earlier this year after TextDrive never migrated me from a Joyent server. I was traveling and busy and didn’t get to it right away, but I had to ask for more than I should have.

All you need to do is look through this forum of mostly unhappy people to see why it’s time to pack up and move.

TextDrive meant the world to me in 2005. I met one of my most awesome friends there (shout out to Nate), and I’ll always remember the good times. In fact, the picture of myself I most frequently use as an avatar was taken by Nate at a TextDrive gathering in September 2005. I was scolding Nate for wanting to go out and have a smoke. (He has since given up smoking.)

scolding

Anyhow, I wish all the folks there the best, as always.

I’ve moved six of my eight domains already, and have only this one and Ryan Johnson’s fan site left to move.

P.S.: if you let a blitzed person, even one from TextDrive, take your photo, they might think you’re in focus when you’re not….

Deirdre

Originally published at deirdre.net. You can comment here or there.

FB/Twitter

Sep. 2nd, 2010 10:32 am
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Since other people are stating their policies, here's mine: I'm not going to tweet/FB (my own) comments unless they're to my own unlocked posts. I will leave pingbacks on (update: there do seem to be some implementation detail issues with pingbacks presently, see the comments on this post)

My non-reply tweets get reposted to facebook, but my LJ contents are different from either.

I'm not hiding my identity here, on Twitter, or FB, so don't feel like you're going to out me. Each of them uses some variant of my first and last name.

You're always welcome to link to my public LJ (or Twitter) posts.
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In the move to increase writing time and still keep up with LJ, I've unfollowed people who aren't following me and pared down the groups I belong to.

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