I win!

(Reposted from old blog)

I just reactivated Akismet and its like night and day, its catching spam by the second… And I was able to re-enable email alerts on comments and I can now look at the moderation queue without getting shell shocked.

Of course I had to flush 23000+ spam out of the queue, it was such a mammoth job I did work directly on the database, WordPress brain surgery if you will. Hopefully there will be no lasting after effects of that. I took out the entire queue, then I nuked all comments from hotmail addresses as that took out 95% of the spam that got through, sorry if one of my readers used a hotmail address to post here. Hopefully it won’t be a problem anymore. Once I took out the bulk of it with phpMyAdmin I went right ahead and pruned the rest through WordPress. Whoo.