ATTENTION Friends, Family, and Loyal Readers:

As you may have noticed DougMeade.com has been getting flooded with “comment spam”.

Some idiot hackbas that post porn links and what not on any site that lets them post a comment have found our little internet gem.

(if you know what hackbas means then you have truly been with DougMeade.com for a long time… comment with it’s meaning and perhaps I’ll send you a free DougMeade.com T-Shirt!)

Anyway…

There are a couple of things I COULD do to stop said hackbas.
I could build a security application into my site.
But that would take some time and effort that honestly… I’d rather not expend.

Or… I could move the site over to an entirely new system.
A “best of breed” blogging application.

There are pros and cons for each possible solution.

The UPSIDE of moving to a new system is that I will get away from my “built from scratch custom” web site.

While I used to take great pride in running such a web site… as I get older I find myself with less and less time to keep it up to speed with all the latest cutting-edge technologies.
(thus the hackba spammmers).
I still want to USE the latest cutting-edge technologies … I just don’t have the time I once did to write my own version of them.

The DOWNSIDE is that once the site was moved over all you wonderful registered users would likely have to follow the “I forgot my password” link to reset your DougMeade.com password and thus initialize it in the new site.
Annoying? Yes.
But a small price to pay if it means the end of spamming hackas.

Please post here if you have any strong opinion / emotion on this proposed solution.

By the way - anyone who posts a definition of Hackbas without a relevant comment regarding the possible move to a new web application will not be eligible for the T-Shirt.

If you aren’t gonna read the whole blog you don’t deserve one.

If you read the whole blog - take the time to comment - but don’t bother to say something relevant … you don’t deserve one.