Defensio to the rescue

When I come back to interblah.net, I normally have a quick look at the index page to see if any new comments are awaiting my attention. And recently that's revealed a few interesting comments (thanks!), and hundreds of spam comments.

I deliberately didn't do anything clever to combat spam, but I got a bit sick of it today, so I've started sending comments to Defensio to stem the flow. The implementation was very simple (see github for details), and hopefully that'll stem the flow of links to naughty filth on my site.

Except for the links that I add, of course.

Comments

1. James Adam (2008-08-22 14:57:34)

   Turns out Defensio is letting though a LOT of spam here, although that could be because I'm not using it properly, just hacking into it's API a little bit. Anyway - there's a new spam-block feature, that you may have seen on http://po-ru.com here now too.

2. Carl Mercier (2008-08-24 15:25:25)

   James, Make sure we return a "success" response when you try to audit a comment. Maybe you're not sending the parameters in the right format. If problems persist, send us an email and we'll take a look. cheers!

3. James Adam (2008-08-28 15:09:51)

   Thanks Carl, I've tweaked the comment mechanism to store some more information about the response from Defensio - hopefully that should illuminate what's going on.