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Blog Spam
I logged in tonight, and saw that there were 6000+ entries in the ninjette blogs. This was interesting, as yesterday there were only 300 or so. I quickly found a spammer account that had posted thousands of annoying spam entries about online drugs, etc. The blog area doesn't have the same level of anti-spam control that the forum area does, so deleting them all was a pain in the ass. Can only delete 200 at a time, so it took a whole bunch of clicks, as there is no straightforward way to delete all of them at once.
To combat this new attack vector, I've made some small changes to the blog area. First - a user here must meet the Marketplace requirements to be able to add any blog entries (25+ posts, been here 30 days). Next, I've put all new blog entries into the moderation queue, so nothing gets posted in the blogs without approval. I'm hoping to remove that second requirement at some point, but in the short term, please bear with me.
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