Friggen’ Spammers
Again with the drive-by spamming!
I’ve been pretty lucky with the fix I put in to block these ass holes in the comments section of the website, but they’ve apparently changed their tactics: now they use trackbacks. I’ve deleted about 600 of these in the past 12 hours… all from the same lame ass online casino (and the URL they put in there doesn’t even work… monkeys!)
What part of “I don’t want you shit on my site” do you have a problem with? Do I come over to your house and crap on your lawn? No? Then don’t do the same to my site, Ass clowns!
Time to to look at trackbacks and block ’em I guess.
I’ve tried a couple of things and finally settled on the following query against the database:
UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `ping_status` = ‘closed’
This effectively closes all posts in the database from pings, and hopefully trackbacks.
Time will tell if this actually does what I think it does.
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