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Socialism allowed here!

November 14th, 2007 · Posted by Skuds in Technology · 3 Comments · Technology

I was a little bit worried, reading a letter in the Guardian this week, that I may have set up WordPress to automatically nuke any comments containing the word “socialism”. I have a ‘blacklist’ of words and any comment containing them goes in the bin. The list is of words which crop up a lot in spam but are not likely to be in real comments – levitra, viagra, casino, xanax, tamiflu and so on.

What I had not realised was that the word ‘socialist’ contains the word ‘cialis’ which is another viagra-type drug which a lot of spam is trying to flog. Fortunately it is also a word I forgot to add to the blacklist so everything is OK.

Scunthorpe has always been allowed 🙂

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3 Comments so far ↓

  • tyger

    Jeez,

    I just cleared out my banned list – cialis was there!

  • Skuds

    To be honest, I have not had any spam at all since I installed the security code captcha thingy.

    It is working so well I never bothered installing Bad Behavior on this server and have not even activated Spam Karma.

    I am thinking about removing the banned word list completely as its now redundant.

  • Gordon Seekings

    Wots a Socialist. :-))