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CAPTCHA removed by Sophie

We've had to disable the CAPTCHA function as of today since it was causing a comment error - we're now looking into what happened and what can be done in future to cut down on spam postings. I'll keep you updated.
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CAPTCHA and continuing work by Sophie

Alan suggested we implement a CAPTCHA feature (the confirmation boxes with letters and numbers in that appear when you're commenting on a website to make sure you're not a spambot!) - this is now live. I've certainly noticed less spam getting...

Managing Queued Spam Postings by Sophie

I am aware that yesterday saw a higher than usual amount of attempted spam postings here at the blogs. If you are a blog owner, please make sure you go in regularly and Review Comments to your blog to delete all the unwanted posts. Do not allow unwanted...
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Offensive Spam Notifications: 25 August by Sophie

As I'm sure many of you have noticed, today has seen a selection of offensive spam postings bouncing off our blog spam buffer. Please see below the reply I sent to one concerned blogger who forwarded me an e-mail notification she'd recieved: "[ This]...
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Blog commenting function by Sophie

A quick update to let you know that the problems we've been experiencing with comments being posted on blogs and galleries seem to have been resolved. As far as we can tell this was due to an error in some of the settings being used to block spam postings...
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Spam and offensive postings by Sophie

In response to a recent flurry of offensive "spam" postings in several blogs here (mine included!) I offer Clusterbloggers the following advice (below) and please rest assured I'm still working to improve the security settings. This is new software to...
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