jkcohen

I have comment spam coming through, and I don’t know how the evil [expletive deleted]s are doing it. I have a cron job that executes an SQL statement that sets the comment_status flag on all posts older than 21 days to “closed.” I’ve checked the tables, and they reflect this; I’ve checked the pages, and they reflect this.

So, if the comment_status is set to closed, how is it that the comment spammers are able to post comments to every post in the blog’s history, which stretches back to 2003? (I moderate all of them, of course, but it’s an increasing pain.) For obvious reasons, I need to stop this.

I’d be grateful for any answers.

Allow me to add my voice to those of people who are having trouble with WordPress and PHP 5. I’m running RedHat 9.0, Apache 2.0.50, PHP 5.0.1, and WordPress 1.3a nightly 9/13/04. Wp-login.php blows up every time. Who is taking responsibility for this bug? Do I have to make a case to the PHP people that the bug is theirs?
I can’t switch back to PHP 4; my host is relying on PHP 5. So, I’m stuck.