Ever had a user register on your blog and not really been 100% on whether they’re a real person or just another annoying spam bot? Most of the time you can tell the difference pretty easily, but every now and again you get one that looks normal but just seems a little too odd to be genuine.
Well if you’re just as paranoid as me, you could always double check them against stopforumspam.com. I’ve actually discovered that a couple of my very own subscribers were known spam bots by checking them against the stopforumspam.com website.
Remember it’s not paranoia if they really are spam bots.
After running on Wordpress 2.2.2 for just over a year, and having some spare time I thought it was time for an upgrade. So shellscript.co.uk is now running on the latest version of Wordpress 2.5.1 & the most recent k2 theme, hopefully this will help reduce the amount of spam comments and bogus users I get but I seriously doubt it.
The upgrade has been pretty smooth as far as upgrades go, there are a few glitches here and there but nothing I can not fix. The only real problem I’ve noticed is that IE 6 has stopped displaying some of my old floated images correctly, they just appear with out being floated left or right but only in IE 6. I’ve not tested it in 7 yet but Firefox and Safari display everything as it should be. The good news is that it’s easily fixable so I am not really that bothered by it.
While upgrading I have also change my site layout a little, I now have 3 columns instead of 2 and I have expanded the post content area by a whole 50 pixels. I know it doesn’t sound like much but I think it looks much better than it did. The only thing thats left to do is update my current theme but I think ill leave that for another time.
Ever had a user register on your blog and not really been 100% on whether they’re a real person or just another annoying spam bot? Most of the time you can tell the difference pretty easily, but every now and again you get one that looks normal but just seems a little too odd to be genuine.
