Imaginary Skies

Since Akismet got me way to many false positives without even admitting it had a false positive after I painstakenly dragged the comments out of the spamfolder, I’ve killed that plugin in favour for Defensio. Akismet has pissed me off, especially since help can’t be found anywhere or is horribly outdated. And since false positives are more annoying than spam itself, I’m going to try giving it the curb.

So I’ll give Defensio a trial run of a month or two and then we’ll see how well it works.

Anyway, there’s a second thing I’ve changed: Since spammers prefer to target older posts, I will automatically close comments on all posts older than thirty days. That will curb the sheer ammount of spam this blog gets and it’s rare I get comments on anything but the latest five, ten posts.

I hope that will help.