New comment spam filtering
I’m trying out a new comment spam filtering plugin for WordPress. It’s called WP-SpamFree. When I logged on this morning I had more than 600 spam comments just from overnight. There seem to be a lot more the last few days. WP-SpamFree promises to virtually eliminate comment spam, especially bot generated spam and not delete real comments. If it works I will gladly make a donation to their coffers.
So, let me know if your comments aren’t showing up. Keep in mind that first-time commenters and comments with questionable language or comments more than a couple links in them will automatically be held for moderation by me.
First there was Madonna and Oprah – Now Lindsay?
According to the New York Post, Lindsay Lohan has filed a ONE-HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR lawsuit against E-Trade for featuring a toddler named “Lindsay” in one of their eminently adorbz stock-trading baby ads (above), which allegedly “violated Lohan’s rights under New York state civil-rights law.”
How’s that, you ask? Well, according to Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, “the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna.”
Needless to say, this is the single most frivolous lawsuit ever brought against anyone ever forever. And to all the millions of girls named “Lindsay” currently basking in the reflected sheen of well-deserved celebrity bouncing off The One True Lindsay: Watch your backs. One-hundred-million-dollar drug habits don’t feed themselves, you know.