Well, it's been a smidge since I last posted here, mainly because I've been working on a few projects which are due for release soon. Two of them involve phoenix blogs and the other one is [elsie].

I've also been working on some new anti-spam measures, although some of them won't be implementable until they publicly release the 1.8 version of the code, which is geared far more towards stopping the wankers that think spam is the way forward (if you're a spamming wanker and actually reading this, please feel free to spam this blog, the data that you provide is invaluable :D ).

As you can see from the "number of comments in the last 24 hours" I haven't actually enforced any of the antispam measures on this blog, although you have to be a logged in member to be able to make a comment that's actually published - if you're not a member, and you want to make a comment then you'll need to get hold of me via the [b2evo] forums and request membership of this blog. This is mainly so I can get a shedload of data on the methods that these wankers use when they spam. So far I have over 15,000 spam comments on record, and you'd be amazed at how much these can be condensed to "common properties".

The new anti-spam measures that are coded into the 1.8 version will make it VERY simple for anyone to write a plugin that can assist fight spam. Instead of the "true/false" blacklist that's the current method, they've implemented a "karma" system whereby comments (and posts) are analysed by a variety of plugins and an overall "chance of spam" is generated. This changes the blacklist into a grey list which is far more useful as you can have good guys and bad guys all in the same table and each can affect the eventual karma total.

It'll be interesting to see the sorts of antispam measures that other developers come up with. As all of them will be plugins you'll be able to pick and choose which ones you wish to implement on your own blogs. The goal is to have such a variety of measures that may or may not be implemented on a blog, that the spammers just piss off and shoot themselves ...... damn, now that would be a christmas present huh?