You may have noticed an increase in spam comments appearing across the site recently. We’re glad to confirm this has now been fixed.
After digging into the issue, we traced the problem back to our spam filtering service. The configuration hadn’t been set up correctly, which meant the filter was being bypassed entirely in certain cases. In practice, this allowed some users to post comments without going through the verification check that’s supposed to catch this kind of activity.
We raised a ticket with the provider as soon as we identified the cause, and between their support and our own checks, we’ve now got the configuration corrected.
- The verification check is back in place and working as intended
- Spam filtering is now correctly enforcing the rules it should have been applying all along
- We’ve reviewed recent comments and removed the spam that slipped through during the affected period
We’ll be keeping a closer eye on the filter’s behaviour over the next little while to make sure everything stays as it should. If you spot anything that looks like spam, please flag it to us so we can take a look. Thanks for your patience while we got this sorted.
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I can help you. I am currently making $17000 per month on spam verification checking methods…
it’s set to watch for comments like this and doesn’t have a joke sensor, be careful.
Oh dear
I was going to add anogther similar comment and ask Halfwit to trump me
Well done to get to the root of the problem
I don’t think many on here have a “Joke Sensor” either to be fair. 😊
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I suppose one of my emails of dealing with that sodding spam can now be marked as resolved.
An annoying intrusion.
i make $17,240 a month blah blah blah. just kidding.
very good news that those nasty spam bots are gone. so thanks!
Great. It’s been driving me nuts. I’ve had more replies from scams to posts on my email than I have real replies! 🤔😊
Well I have great news for you because I know a guy in Nigeria who just needs a small investment…
Great. Thanks Dern. Please send account info. to silly man enterprises, abuja. 🤔😊
Geoff… Do you want to earn £17,000 a week… just send me a £10,000 in investment stake to “ I’m stealing your money for my boat fund. co.ng” and I will send you the secret of vast wealth.. All you will need to do is find 2 new investors a week.. 🤣😂🫣
WOW, thanks. The cheque will be in the post soon (?). Meanwhile my two friends are John Smith and Jimmy Jones. I hope they do well. 🫣
That’s a lot more convincing than most of the actual spam…
If we find 2 more subscribers each to the ‘weekly brief’ will George hand out book tokens?
“Book Tokens”
Blimey, I ain’t heard that phrase for many years… do we even have books anymore ? 🤔🫡
THIS internet-obsessed youth does, I can’t speak for the cultured and worldly adults.
So young and innocent… cold hard cash it’s the only reward.
George if you pay me $17,000 a week I will be your spam moderator.
Thanks team, appreciate all your hard work on this website
What I though was ironic is that they seemed to like answering each other more than normal comments….apart from Geoff Roach, apparently they were on him like flys on shite…😂🤣
For a while there, I thought you might have got rid of all the Regulars 🤔🤔
But I shouldn’t have worried, It’ll be business as usual again now. 😊😊😊😊😊.
Thanks George 🫂🫂🫂
Glad they’re gone. 👍