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Wednesday Sep 21 2005

Since no one else is doing it I might as well do it myself. Given the coming demise of centralized blacklist and the fact that no one ever bothered porting my Silly Question a.k.a. SpamQuiz idea from Pivot-Blacklist to other popular blogging systems I figured I might as well do it myself. So if you're a WordPress user and you like my low-fi anti-spam solution:

Go to my WP test blog and download the beta plugin!

update: It seems Eric Meyer did something similar to WP-SpamQuiz. I haven't checked out his incarnation of this idea yet but it seems we got the same idea somewhere around the beginning of 2005. Maybe you'll like his version better, maybe mine. Regardless of that, programming this little plugin learned me how the guts of WordPress work which was a nice experience!

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At 21 September '05 - 15:12 Simon wrote:
Hehehe, nice Marco! :)

Eat shit spammers!
At 22 September '05 - 16:05 Bakkel wrote:
This is sweet. I’m currently working on an English blog with WP, so I will put this in!

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Installing Spamquiz
For my dutch blog I’ve been using Pivot blacklist for controlling my referrer and comment spam. This very nice piece of coding is done by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg and is used by (I think) every Pivot user at the moment. When I was setting up t…Sent on 22 September '05 - 20:44 , via Bakkel's blog

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