Ticket #98: Blog Spam

Ok, we have been upgrading chyrp as it plows along to v2.0. I must say, it's not bad as blogging software goes, but the database is rather embarrassing. There is a groups table and a permissions table, but instead of joining those with an associative entity there is just a list of permissions in a permissions field in the groups table. Not joking.

Anyway, one of the changes as of late was the migration from Akismet to Defensio for spam blocking. Can't say I'm too happy about that because now everything is marked as spam. However, we get about 50 real spam messages a day, so not using it really isn't an option.

So, until we take a look at fixing things (or redesigning this whole site), just know that your messages may get marked as spam. We will just keep checking in on them and approving any valid messages.

Thanks, Nate