Spammers?

[owlmoose]

Has anyone else been having issues with random anonymous spam comments? I feel like they dramatically went up over the last few weeks, from basically none to several a week, mostly either in Japanese or short strings of numbers, all from similar IP addresses. It's to the point where I'm thisclose to turning off anonymous comments for awhile.

Anyone know?

Also, hi, yes, I am still alive. :) Just busy and distracted with various things. I'll be back come Worldcon!

Comments

[satsuma]

I haven’t gotten any of those (yet) but I imagine it’d be quite annoying. Do you have a captcha set?

[pete_thomas]

I haven't seen anything of the like but hallo my name peter i am not bot i sware.

Glad to see you're doing okay otherwise. <3

[owlmoose]

I don't but that's a good idea. I'd forgotten that was a setting. I'll go turn it on right now. Thanks!

[owlmoose]

That's exactly what a bot would say! ;)

Nice to see you too. :)

[owlmoose]

So I was wrong -- I did have text-based captcha turned on. But T just tested it and it seems like the captcha isn't working. Maybe it's recently gone down and that's why I'm seeing more of them? Anyway, I think I'll just turn anon comments off for now and see how it goes.

[satsuma]

If the captcha’s have broken that’d definitely cause an uptick in spam. Whatever it is, I hope it gets sorted out soon :)

[krait]

I have not had, or seen, any spammy comments lately, but I'll be on the lookout.

Might help if I updated like I'm always saying I'm going to... *dry*

Glad you are alive and not too distracted! Enjoy Worldcon! (I wish I was going!! I went once years ago and it was so great.)