Sorry for the lack of updates. My life has been more than hectic lately and somehow on top of it all I managed to get sick and stop raiding. Ulduar has been released nearly two weeks ago now and I still haven’t managed to step inside it on the live servers.
Then, in addition to that all, spammers have been harassing this site like no tomarrow. Comment moderation is both a blessing and a curse.
1536 comments awaiting moderation
How many of these are actual comments? probably none. 
(edit: i was right, not a single legit comment)
So, how to deal with it? Good ole’ .htaccess rules to the rescue. The vast majortity of the spammer comments seem to be originating from the UK. Easy enough, all I have to do is ban the IP block from being able to access this site and the spam *should* stop, right?
Well only time will tell, but we’ll see.
For those that are interested in how I managed to do this, read more after the jump:
log into your ftp account and change directories into the directory where the blog is located. in my case this was in /wowmonkey/. Next, open or create a .htaccess file. Be sure to include the . in front of the filename. Next, add the following:
[code]
order allow,deny
deny from 194.8.74.
deny from 194.8.75.
allow from all
[/code]
What this essentially does is, blocks the spammer IP blocks, in my case, 194.8.74 and .75 and allows everyone else.
Good riddance spammers!!
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