Hi Tom, well if you're being hit this bad with spam, if its easier for you to revert back to html, then by all means do it. I mean its not like you're not approachable, so if we have any suggestions, would you mind if we either sent them through here, email or ag forum instead? would that make it easier? just my thoughts.
On 3/20/12, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Recently the USA Games blog has been getting hammered by spam and this > morning the spam attacks have been larger than they've ever been. I > logged into the USA Games dashboard only to find a total of 387 messages > waiting for moderation and 366 of them were definitely spam and the > other 21 were questionable. None of the comments were from people from > the Audio Games forum, Audyssey, or USA Games list. That, of course, > makes me wonder if anyone here actually uses the blog or not. > > Basically, what I want to know is how many people here actually use the > USA Games blog, and if you want us to keep it. If not we are in favor of > removing Wordpress from the USA Games site and go back to writing up > news related items in html as needed. That will prevent people from > commenting on articles, making suggestions, etc but will also get rid of > the constant spam to the website. > > Of course, there are ways we can control the spam by black listing IP > Addresses where the spam originates from, black list domains and e-mail > addresses, etc but such methods tend to restrict access from perfectly > legit users as well. We hate to begin black listing blocks of IP > Addresses from say Hotmail knowing that a certain amount of VI gamers > might actually be on Hotmail and be black listed simply because the > server happens to be hammering our site with spam. > > So please let us know if you want the blog to remain, in which case > we'll be taking more drastic steps to filter spam, or if you'd rather us > just ditch the blog and go back to writing up news in straight html. > > Sincerely, > Thomas Ward > USA Games Interactive > http://www.usagamesinteractive.com > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
