====== Blog spam comments deleted ======

Dozens upon dozens of spam comments have accumulated
since [[blog:pushbx:2022:0419_hello_world|the creation of this blog]] in 2022,
until I changed it
[[blog:pushbx:2023:0824_blog_comments_restricted_to_registered_users|to require registration]]
for submitting comments (on Thursday).

I finally went and deleted all of them,
plus the occasional test comments by me.
They're preserved [[https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/doku.bak|in the dokuwiki backup repo]], however.

Most posts did not have any comments.
About half a dozen posts had **a lot** of spam comments, likely in the hundreds.
I never figured out why the spam would flock to these particular posts.

Another mystery is that most spam comments were
submitted in pairs,
on the same post,
at very nearly the same time,
and with minor text differences.

All the spam comments deleted now
were already hidden, seeing as
I had initially set up dokuwiki to screen
every comment.
As in, comments are hidden by default and
administration can show them if desired.
Probably the only user-visible change is
that the spam comments were counted towards
the amount of comments display on the blog landing page.

{{tag>pushbx blogging comments dokuwiki}}


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