Because of this ridiculous amount of spam, I’ve changed the site’s settings so that only registered and logged in users may post comments, which has worked well so far (0 spam today!).  As a result, anybody who wishes to participate in our ongoing conversations about DnD and Warcraft will be forced to register with the site.  I didn’t want to do this, but the barrage of spam forced my hand.  The good thing is registration is free and any information you provide will not be sold/shared with anyone.

Also, anybody thinking of creating an account should remember this warning: any new accounts created for the purpose of generating spam on Folaji.com will be deleted.

That is all.

To be proactive, I’ve activated the Akismet Plugin.  This plugin will filter comments as they come in and only post comments which it knows aren’t spam.  Now, your comments might be picked up as spam at first, so I’ll be reviewing comments marked as spam on a daily basis.

Akismet is supposedly a smart program that learns from its mistakes so, as time goes on, it should be making less mistakes, all the while making my life a lot easier.

For someone (like me) who measures the importance of a website by how many spammers try to abuse it, this is truly a great day. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to read up on how to install the Askimet Plugin.