When you have a blog it’s nice to see that people have found and are reading it. The problem is, with this blog, I just don’t see to many people a) finding it, and b) liking it enough to want to create a user account. But there it is, daily, a bunch of e-mails of new users to the blog. You’d think I’d be happy. Well upon further review (thankfully the Pro sports hasn’t trademarked that phrase, as it’s a common one for me) I see that most of these accounts are just spam bots. Scripts designed to create an account and then try to post something. I had 300 of these accounts going on, and I wanted to clear them out. Which leads me to an apology, when there’s that many, there’s really no way for me to separate the real from the fake accounts. So I pretty much deleted them all. If yours was one of the real ones, sorry about that. Further more, I’ve disabled (I think) the ability to register with the site, until I can find some plugin that can help me combat a majority of the spam accounts. I do believe you can still post if you wanted to with just a name and valid e-mail address. Those go though a 2 step filter, one automated and then I check the rest. I’ll have to test that function out still. So again, sorry if I deleted your real account, feel free to thank the spammers who continue to abuse the systems.
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