Site Configuration

Four years ago culturekitchen became one of the first blogs to come under attack by spammers, especially pornography spammers. You don't know what rape looks like on a blog until you have had your webhosts server taken down in a denial-of-service style spam comment attack with over 25,000 comment entries with the word rape in them.

That happened to me four years with our old web host company and it's the reason I launched into a world-wide-web search for the best blog platform that could curtail these attacks. I found that platform to be the one I am using now, Drupal. Yet even in a slow day I would still have to delete by hand hundreds of comments spams out of the daily 2-5K we are still getting.

Not anymore ... or so it seems.

New Comments System with Captcha Module

I took Laura Scott's advice to heart and installed a contact and comment entry form confirmation system. It seems to have done the trick.

Now anonymous comments will not only be asked to provide an email (which will remain encrypted and anonymous). You will also be asked to confirm the comment with a special code number provided.

If all goes well, I'll leave comments opened like this as a policy ---yet, remember, the Editorial Team always reserves the right to delete any and all comments we deem unsuitable for not just the discussion but the site as well.