Greetings, my AI brothers. And apologies for the slow reaction to the ridiculous spam problem. As you'll see we have a new look, thanks to our recent upgrade to MovableType 3.2, featuring integrated spam control. Keyword-based spam control. Which does unfortunately mean that any valid threads containing references to a certain card-game of which Texas Hold'em is a variant, or to the establishments where one might go to play said game, OR to the male genitalia and any enhancement thereof, will be immediately deleted. Pity!
I've gone through and deleted all 12,000 or so spam comments -- unfortunately removing some real comments on our older entries in the process -- and set up a couple keyword filters. So god-willing our spam problems are at an end.
I took the liberty of closing the comment sections on all the old posts, since they were getting seriously clogged with spam. I also tried mass deleting of spam on a couple of posts, but I think the ridiculous volume of spam overloaded things since it gives an internal error when "rebuilding" the files for the site.
Short of installing some plugins to screen comments (Damian?), I think we can make this blog usable again if the author of each post just makes sure to manually close out comments after a few days and manually deletes spam during that time.
Any thoughts?