Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

At 1:05 this afternoon I turned off required registration for comments. At 7:30 this evening, the spammers found me. By 9:30, I had to turn required registration back on. That’s really frustrating because I want to make interaction with this site as painless as possible, but even more so, I refuse to let my personal property be a dumping ground for the criminal filth these people (Can they really be considered people?) spew onto the Intarweb. It is my sincerest wish that all spammers burn in hell.

It’s obvious I don’t have my shit together when it comes to the comments portion of this site. In the past, I’ve hesitated to enable anonymous comments because it seems like I’d be opening the door to spammers. Conversely, I’ll bet that you hate registering for yet another dumb website as much as I do, and that registration ends up serving as a deterrent to comments as much as a guard against spammers.

Some time ago I thought I had enabled anonymous comments, but something that happened today revealed that I had not. Removing a single line of code that I had added some months ago in order to enable only authenticated comments solved the problem.

So… comment away. I ask that you use a name of some kind, but all identification fields are optional. I’ll leave things this way until the spammers catch up with me.