Comments on: Viva La Resi-staunch: French Canadians (?) Help Fight Blogspam

By: Patrick Mineault

Patrick Mineault — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:21:33 +0000

Ah, first we revive AMFPHP, then we figure out how to stop blog spam.

Quebecors: is there anything they can’t do?

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:11:57 +0000

The current SWF implemented at the time of this posting is 11k. It’s probably my site itself taking awhile to load. I have a header graphic at the top that is almost 400k, and every image on this site is an un-optimized PNG.

Not to mention the fact the Central SWF’s on the left don’t load as of last night because my sub-domain had it’s DNS changed, so you’ll see a continual loading…

By: mason

mason — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:57:38 +0000

hey just testing this out. So far pretty sweet. Though the page did take a while to load.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:18:14 +0000

I swear I compiled to Flash Player 6. Did it prompt you to update?

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:16:35 +0000

I’m more concerned about stopping the bots. They are the ones pumping 400+ spam comments into my blog a day. The manual enterers have generated no more than 6 every 2 weeks. I have no qualms about deleting manual spam.

Additionally, adding any type of registration or validation makes it harder on people like you to comment. I want it to be as simple as possible for anyone and everyone to comment, except bots. If the worse I’m doing to that usabilty is requiring the Flash 6 Player, I’m fine with that.