The Fun Zone

When I checked my e-mail today, I found about 750 messages telling me that people had posted comments on The Fun Zone. It would appear that somebody got a complete list of every post I've put up since March of '05, and posted from 2-7 comments on all of them overnight.

Now, this happens from time to time, as somebody tries to boost their search engine ranking by posting their URL all over my site. The blog software has some nice tools for removing these messages if they all use the same URL. That keyword gets banned, and future comments from that location don't show up.

The problem with this attack was that they didn't use any URLs. It wasn't going to raise the stats for their website. It was a completely pointless attack, except to piss me off, for I actually had to go into every single post, delete the comments, and close commenting for the future. It's taken me all day.

I've heard that the new version of b2evoltion has some better anti-spam techniques, but I'm afraid to attempt an upgrade. It's probably time for some research...