New way to comment!
Note: This article was published while I was in my early 20s. I was much younger and dumber. Please don't hold it against me. One of the perils of having a 20+ year old website!
Dude to the massive amounts of spam that I just got today (over ~50 messages in a few hours), I installed teh wordpress plug-in called “bot-check”. Its a pretty simple modification that makes the commenter put in a 6 digit code (that is generated at random) and checks teh number before the comment is added. It is just like most sites that do user sign ups where u have to input a word or characters before u sign up to make sure its not a spam bot. Hopefully this will be a nice way to stop all these comments from being sent to my inbox saying “backgammon skgadldsfdsafas/as…. Later!
I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.