Akismet, an excellent system that most Wordpress blogs use to control spam, has failed today. I don’t know why, but in the last 24 hours hundreds of spam postings have appeared on the site. It’s clogging my inbox and generally annoying. The problem appears to be internet-wide. To end this, I’ve temporarily added a new spam filtering question for people posting comments. It asks you to complete a simple math equation. Hopefully that won’t be too annoying. I’ll remove it as soon as Akismet is back up and working.
Try it out below. If anyone has any problems with the new filter, please let me know.
UPDATE: They claim to have fixed the problem, I’m turning off the math.
And, just so this isn’t a totally non-Snakes on a Plane related post, here’s a picture of a sandcastle:
I really hope that all snakeonaplaniacs know how to add.