There were 297 attempts to comment in the 54 or so hours I was away from home … on IJSM.org alone. I have 363 unread emails in another account, the vast majority of which I presume are also spam attempts.
I think I did the right thing in following my gut instinct. Now I need to write up a shell script to automate this for me as a “vacation” mode, since I have multiple installs to safeguard. If anyone is interested, I will be happy to pass the shell script along.
How would the script work – what would it do? Delete all comments is all I can figure. If there’s a way to activate it when I’m sure that I don’t have any comments I need to save, then sure I’m interested.
It would just be a script to flip the bit on “all comments require moderation” from the command line. It’s not anything that you need as a single-install user—this just does what the bit-flip does in your Web interface to the install. It’s designed for people like me with multiple installs in multiple databases.
Oh! My mistake!