Category: Spam

How to Purge Comment Spam from Drupal

I recently wrote about a spam comment problem I had that was so bad it effectively took down my website. Fortunately by rooting around in the database for my installation for a few minutes, I was able to remove all of the spam in bulk, rather than manually deleting the...

How to Get 1 Million Blog Comments in a Month - A.K.A. Cleaning My Spam Infestation

I'd like to tell a brief, cautionary tale about what can happen when you don't monitor your website's comments for spam for a little while. Please note – the events within didn't happen over the course of years, but in around a month. Lately I've been a bit lax on...