I'm getting tons of comment spam on my site. I'm assuming that these are scripts used to create the accounts and post comments (which is nice and easy, since the curl script necessary to do this is published here somewhere...).
Or do people actually have to do this manually? If the site sends a password, the users have to log in, then manually post comments, right?
So I want to stop this garbage - and please don't tell me to upgrade (I'm running 1.3.9) because I don't have the time to diff all my files and make the necessary changes, and especially because I'm not sure my theme will work with newer versions...
What I'd like to do is simply turn off user account registration - I'd replace it by a page with a link for people to email me to ask for accounts, which I'd then create manually. Is this possible? I can't see any other way of stopping this garbage for now. While SpamX is helping a lot with the actual comment spam, I've started getting 50-100 new accounts per day which I have to clean out manually.
Thanks for any help,
Kirk
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