Anti-Spam Measures

June 22, 2005 D. H. McKee

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In my growing disdain of comment and trackback spam, I’ve taken further measures against it. I’ve located and installed some great anti-comment spam and anti-trackback spam plugins from this really cool James Seng guy. Now, you can’t post comments without copying a security code from an image to a form field (you may have seen this on better websites than mine). I was going to install a plugin that utilized fuzzy logic to determine what trackback pings were spam — a learning plugin, which would adapt over time. But I’m a very lazy man. How lazy? Don’t get me started….

Hopefully this will help in the fight against the dark side.

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About This Site

As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.