I have been under siege by vile spammers who deserve to roast in the deep cinders of hell, as Dr. Maturin would put it.
As a result, I switched off registration for the blog in the hope of thwarting the reprehensible plots of these nefarious ne’erdowells.
I will, however, switch registration on now for a while.
If you have been trying to register, register. I will turn it off again later on.
UPDATE 1 Feb 15:21 GMT:
I have switched it off again for a while.
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on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!” on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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It is the downside of being famous. I am so glad I am nobody…little spam. God bless you.
The dark side of the Internet. Doesn’t it make you wonder what really goes on behind closed doors? Scary stuff, that.
Boy, tealady, if you think THAT’S the dark side of the internet, I envy you your sheltered life!
The “usual suspects”, I suspect: LCWR, “National Schismatic Reporter, and their supporters.
Has anyone read the nasty, obscene Tweets sent to @Pontifex ?!? The Holy See needs an “expletive delete” filter. I can only imagine what Fr. Z is getting.
As a lover of Dante, I would say may they freeze in the lowest, coldest reaches of Hell where no wi-fi can reach them.
As a Chicagoan, I would say that Hell is here today! brrrr. And just 48 hours after our temps reached 60 degrees F.
Perhaps a new curse would be “Get thee to Chicago!” Boiling in July/August; freezing in the winter and high taxes collected by the corrupt crooks of Cook County year round.
A lot of the time it’s just automated bots that crawl the internet looking for blogs on a certain platform. It’s quite a chore having to deal with that stuff constantly. One of the downsides of running a blog.
mamajen,
Those automated bots hit my blog on my parish’s website. Had to turn Off “comments” because there was no time to moderate them.
acardnal,
Assuming you’re on WordPress, I recommend the Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin for that. It places a little checkbox below the comment form asking commenters to verify that they’re not a bot. It has cut my spam comments down to zero.
Thanks mamajen. I will retain that for future use. Unfortunately, the parish is not using WordPress. They are using eCatholic as their host, and I’m not the webmaster either. Not a big deal. Appreciate your help though.
Our parish website, in WordPress, is getting spammed constantly. I have moderation turned on at all times. It is a pain in the you-know-what.
frjim, try that plug-in that mamajen suggested.
ac, we have that thing where is says “2 + eight = BLANK, and they have to figure it out.
But I will try this one also.
I’m truly sorry Father, that you have to put up with this. As we see the courtesy in our society deteriorating, the anonymity of the Internet causes all sorts of people to come out of the woodwork. If it helps, Father, please know that what you give to all of us and allow us to give and learn from each other is tremendous! We are so grateful.
Speaking of learning, I have wanted to read a good copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy for quite a while. I regret to say I have never read it except in bits and pieces many many years ago. AvantiBev, since you are a ” lover of Dante” would you be able to recommend a good English translation? I’d be very interested to hear your and other’s inputs. Thank you so much!
I can’t even imagine what those vile spammers are up to. I have only recently read some comm box comments at the National Schismatic Reviler and I’m speechless.
I have great respect for those who are trying to reason with those people in the comm box, but I think it’s a total waste of time. However, if it keeps the Revilers busy making spittle flecked retorts, they won’t be prowling about the world seeking…well, you get the drift.
I would also be interested in good translations of Dante. I was on jury duty last week and in the reading section at the back of the jury room there was a copy of Inferno of all things. Was tempted to start reading it but the translation looked a little clunky and I was expecting to be called for an empanelment soon, so I held off.
Anthony Esolen apparently has a good translation of Dante (Esolen being a fellow Catholic).
As to the registration issue, perhaps a combination of capcha and what mamajen suggested? It also maybe wise not to advertise when or when not the registration is active. Constantly reassure people in a reminder if their registration has not went through, to just keep retrying.
Maybe perhaps Father would like to implement the old fashion of drawing a fish symbol, or something similar which would not be discussed on the blog as advice to those who wish to register. Basically like a secret password.
God Bless.
Father Z, here’s a plugin that might help your particular problem: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
Christopher, thank you for the recommendation. Looking forward to approaching the book at this stage in my life.