I Heart Drupal

Last week I limited access to the web site by mistake with a much too aggressive security filter. The reason? A new bunch of referrer spam; something I had previously had a bout with in the summer.

Today I had a burst of comment spam, so unfortunately I have had to shut down anonymous comments -- like so many others in the 'sphere. The neat thing is that by running a few SQL delete statements in MySQL, I was able to easily oust the spammer from my Drupal site. The comment counts are wrong, but the junk is gone. The stuff was coming in so fast that Drupal threw on its throttle -- what a great feature.

What a shame, we were just starting to get to critical mass with readership and site visitors -- some good comments were starting to appear. If you wish to post on the site, apply as a member and I'll get you entered into the database or you can click on "Send Me Your Comments" on the top right of every page on the site.