Jersey Girls and Spammer Jerks
I watched "Jersey Girl" on Saturday with Laurie and I must say I loved it 🙂 I’ve seen other Kevin Smith movies like "Chasing Amy", "Dogma" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and while they all had certain thought-provoking aspects, they never appealed to me emotionally the way "Jersey Girl" did. I don’t know if Keving Smith is growing as a writer and a director of if he is simply becoming one more "Hollywood" writer/director but what I can say is that I liked this one better than most of his previous works. It still had little touches which make it a non-run-of-the-mill movie – such as Gertie doing "Sweeny Todd" for the school (complete with slitting of throats and all :p) and Liv Tyler’s character which was so over-the-top and yet kind of true to life. Most people would probably say that Kevin Smith has sold out because this wasn’t a gritty, realistic, thought provoking movie but instead actually has a happy ending :p But I say, I loved it!!
Spammers seem to be evoking very harsh reactions these days. I’ve heard many people call them jerks (the title was just to go along with Jersey Girls – I really don’t think they are any more of jerks than the rest of humanity … people are just people :p) and even had a couple of users of WPBlacklist write to me and say that they should rot in hell 🙂 I don’t particularly like spammers myself (notwithstanding me not thinking of them as jerks) and so I’ve been conducting my own one-man campaign to do what I can to stop people from being bugged by spam. I’ve been posting over at the WP support forums in response to every spam-related query and have even updated the WPBlacklist plugin in a frenzy of updates to make sure that it can do the best possible to combat spam comments. While I was doing all of this, I seemed to be safe from spam myself for the longest time except for a couple of comments every other day. That seems to have changed now :p Either somebody is determined to get me (no, I’m not paranoid :p) or the spammers have come up with a new set of scripts/tools which circumvent most of the spam deterrents that I’d already put in place. I’ve been getting a steady stream of spam comments since I woke up in the morning today – but the good news is that WPBlacklist has so far caught them all and deleted them instantly. So I sit here with a smug smile on my face saying "another spam comment gone" while the flood of spam continues to hammer at my site :p
Hey, one more feature you might want to add:
When I go to the admin page, have it hit a text file on your site with the current version you have, and prompt if you have a newer version available…
Just want to say…
Thanks…
I’ve been getting 2-3 spam posts per minute for the past few hours. Installed your plug in, and i love it!
One question/bug-
When I do a search, I get this:
Warning: No ending delimiter ‘/’ found in /home/pking/public_html/wp-admin/wpblsearch.php on line 198
Warning: No ending delimiter ‘/’ found in /home/pking/public_html/wp-admin/wpblsearch.php on line 202
Warning: No ending delimiter ‘/’ found in /home/pking/public_html/wp-admin/wpblsearch.php on line 206
Is there an easy way to remove that? I don’t want to hack your code too much, and unfortunately, I don’t have much time either!
While , I was spending 3 minutes into this sites, reading some blogs… I recived 3 spams 🙂 That’s meaning 1 SPAM / minute 🙂
Sorry to use your comments for this, but could you email me with regard to Blacklist please ?
It’s not a coding issue, it’s to do with linking to it. I’ll explain by email 🙂
Hi. Been using WPBlacklist for some weeks and pretty happy.
I would be happy if the ‘official’ blacklist could be automatically imported. E.g. when it is updated or every day or so. As it is a slow process, it’s best to have it done in a separate thread. Not sure how this is best done in PHP. Is there a sort of timer that can be reused? Willing to look at the code if there’s some guidance…