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Slashdotted and spammed
Posted by JLP on July 27th, 2005
A few hours ago a news entry linking to my KDE 3.5 Previews article was published on Slashdot.org. And immediately my blog started to receive A LOT of visitors form all over the world. If I had my blog hosted on my own server on a poor cable link the Slashdot effect would bring it down in no time. I’ve never imagined that one of my articles would cause this.
But with good there also come some bad and irritating things. Some stupid spammer started to fill comments here, and some of the text was even racist. If he has something intelligent to say (which I highly doubt) he should set up his own blog. I think this coward is very sick and should get himself some professional help. Thanks to this ill person I had to disable all the commenting on this blog. Sorry for this! And after this incident I finally see how poorly Blogger.com service is prepared to fight against spam. I hope they improve this very soon or else they will loose their users to competition.
December 22nd, 2005 at 04:38:00
Well, if you had the web server set up so that the article would be properly cached, it’d easily handle the load.
Too bad there’s no way to disable the comments for a particular post.