right now the only stuff I’m dealing with isn’t spam per se, just some guys from some other forum who think it’s cool to come and try to stir shit up on my blog. I’d almost rather have spam :p

Tell me about it. Even with my moderation policy I still get comments that make my eyes burn. Spam is much easier to deal with because I don’t have to think about it; just mark it as spam and move on.

But it’s nice to know that spam doesn’t automatically come with the territory, so to speak, of having wordpress. I think that’s one more point in its favour.

It took me like 3 hours total to do something that should have only taken an hour, thanks to having absolutely no idea that Dreamhost was going to shut down older versions of WP. I think someone may have exploited a security hole in the code, though, because I had like 9 pieces of spam in my moderation queue, which is unprecedented since I started using Akismet.