I’ve been getting hammered by spam today. I just deleted 106 spam comments from the last 2 hours, and another 86 deletd at lunchtime, and another buttload that I deleted at 10AM. In all I would say over 250 spam comments in the last 12 hours.

This can make it difficult to filter out the false positives, like comments by RichJ, which, for whatever reason end up in the spam filter. If you’re noticing your comments not getting posted, I would suggest registering at the site, and logging in to comment. I’m not declaring registration as a new policy, just suggesting it as a possible way to avoid getting trapped in the filter.

So far, I’ve only noticed this happening with RichJ, and trackbacks from Basil’s Blog, and I think there was one other before. Of course, it’s also possible I accidentally deleted a non-spam, so if you’re commenting and wondering where you’re comment went, try registering. It’s on the right sidebar in the “Meta” box, just below the Technorati profile link.

In case you’re wondering what happend to Radioactive Liberty From Friday to Saturday, midPhase offers an explanation. I was fully aware of these forum posts, but it didn’t mean that I was able to actually do anything aboot it.

Hey, where’d the Canadian come from?

Anhoo, that’s what happened for 24 hours, or thereabouts.

I just finished an upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1. Please let me know if things no longer work properly. I just tried posting this, and a plugin I had tried to use must not be compatible, because it ate the post when I attempted to save it. I deactivated the plugin, and it seems to be working again.

UPDATE: I was having a little buggy problem when updating. I’m just testing to see if’n I got rid of it. I did the upgrade over again, and this time I deleted all the files instead of overwriting them. I hope it worked.

DAMN! Nope, it still does it.

Hmm. Well it didn’t that time. That makes it about 50% of the time it doesn’t work.