serious photo spam
September 30th, 2007
I’ve been trying to work out why my installation of Gallery2 was going so slow.
This morning I discovered the answer, while backing up the database that stores all of the photo metadata. The database was over 2gb in size. Upon further investigation, it contained over 1 million comment spams. 1 million!
No wonder 4angle has been running slow of late, with the database getting hit that hard by spammers!
Remedial action taken: commenting disabled, since I didn’t use it anyway.
One Response to “serious photo spam”
1Andy
September 30th, 2007 @ 14:25
Gallery 2.3’s comment module features further spam-prevention features.
As in G2.2, you can enable CAPTCHA for guest-comments. But since CAPTCHA isn’t sufficient, G2.3’s comment module also has akismet integration. Akismet works wonders for comment spam in blogs. We expect the same effect for comment-spam protection in Gallery.
Gallery 2.3 isn’t available yet, but you can upgrade your comment module from the “experimental” repository already.
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