The Joys Of Spam

After several years of very little comment spam, I've started getting a reasonable amount, particularly on old posts. Going in and manually deleting it is getting to be a bit annoying so I've decided to experiment with filtering.I'm going to start with a very simple solution and make it more and more complex as each level fails (I can see a Bayesian filter in my future).Right now, all you have to do to comment is type in a generated number which is so ludicrously simple as to nearly not be there. It's essentially the numerical values for the year, month and day added together; a very low pass filter, I think. Let's see how that works.As a bonus for those commenting near midnight, it has a leniency of +1 on the value. If you take longer than a full day to comment, then... well... tough. You can just damn well go back and get a new number.

11:07:16 December 15, 2005, Thursday (PST) Source: Solitude

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