Don't look now, but there are new posts below. A month after the last bunch. I am so old-media.
Posted by FLOG at March 18, 2005 1:02 PMSacre Bleu! Le Flog! He is back!
Posted by: Kenny at March 20, 2005 9:29 AMYour comment window takes nearly as long to open. Or should I say, Kenny's comment window takes nearly as long to open.
Posted by: WWB at March 28, 2005 2:57 PMAnd twice as long as that to actually post.
Posted by: WWB at March 28, 2005 3:00 PMWhat?!? Veiled insults at the web administrator? Blasphemy!
Seriously -- this is becoming a pretty bad problem with MT installations. They really need to do something in the next version which, thankfully, it seems like they're doing. The big problem isn't the content spam itself perse (although it's annoying to despam and it slows down the DB) but that MT actually refreshes itself after each comment. Many web servers are actually shutting down because of this.
See here. I might actually have to include a Turing test because those page refreshes are what's killing my bandwidth.
As elegantly stated by the above site let's hope that one day these spammers are, "cast into a swirling sucking pit of despair, where they will spend eternity taking 80% of the overdose level of Phentermine, Viagra, and Rogaine, while being forced to play a version of Texas No Hold ‘Em Poker where the losers will get forcible breast implants … if they’re male … and penis enlargements for the rare spamming woman."
Posted by: Kenny at March 29, 2005 9:37 PM