Wordpress Comment Blacklist bit me in the a$$
In an attempt to reduce a certain url from being spammed in my comments, I put that url into my wordpress comment blacklist. I know there’s a warning about being careful what you put there, but I figured the url was safe…well it turns out I was wrong. I didn’t look into it too much, but it seemed the url matched any comments that were put in. That means I lost comments from some of my recent posts like automating subversion, upgrading mysql on Gentoo, and running tentakel in Windows…some posts I really would have liked to see some feedback about.
My apologies to anybody that tried to post in the past two weeks and didn’t see anything show up. What a bummer. 
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I’m suprised to see no blogging about the latest Windows XP vulnerability… (hint,hint)
By Mike D.on 12.30.05 10:57 am
I just figured you hated me and deleted my comment
By Bad Andyon 12.30.05 3:19 pm
Well, in the words of Dana Epp…I’m WMF’d to death, hehe.
By Damonon 12.31.05 10:07 am
Hi, I know this post is quite old, but I just recovered from a similar problem. I had to sift through hundreds of comments in my database that were marked as “spam” by WordPress due to what seemed like an innocent IP blacklist. Did you ever look further into the syntax for items in the blacklist? I’m thinking maybe I used a wrong special character or something and am doing some research to make sure it never happens again.
By Peteron 04.05.08 12:27 pm
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