Happy Friday! I’m having an odd problem here on the blog. Over the last 48 hours, I have received literally (I can no longer use that word without thinking of Rob Lowe’s Parks and Rec character saying “LIT-trally”…so funny), anyway literally over 150 spam comments on one of my old posts. I have to go in several times a day and mark dozens as spam and then delete them.
Since the blog started growing in the last year, I’ve gotten maybe a dozen spam comments total. So I have no idea why this has started, why that one post or how to stop these rude people. So, in the case that I have accidentally deleted a real comment in the last 48 hours, I’m very sorry, it was unintentional. And since marking these comments as spam before deleting them is not seeming to help, I am regrettably going to have to turn on captcha for posting comments. Please forgive me, it will only be for a few days. Hopefully by then, they will have given up and found something constructive to do with their time.
Now onto the cute stuff (as always, they are in no particular order):
Jazzi has made this adorable outdoor furniture for the house she is renovating. Love that pool so much, and can’t wait to see more of the house renovations!
Molly has her kitchen on hand and she has plans to upgrade it.
She also gathered some great inspiration photos for making her own sofa bed for her dollhouse. Check them out here. Hopefully she’ll give us a tutorial when she’s finished. *wink, wink, Molly*
Linda gave us a tutorial on how to make mini books.
And electrified her capiz chandelier. (A DIY made from milk jugs that you must go check out if you haven’t seen it yet.)
Neen’s art deco plans are coming along. She is using an emptied out 1930’s radio as her dollhouse base. Brilliant. Take a look at her pics here.
And sorry ladies, but if I were calling out winners each month, Max would totally have it. She made the best miniature of all this month by far. His name is Findlay.
PS: Be sure to check out all of the participants’ dollhouses here. Everyone is doing great work, I’d love to feature everyone, but as you all know, there’s only so much time to put a post together. 🙂 Also, there have been some concerns over featuring others’ work. 1. Some have said they do not want their content shared from their blog. 2. Some of the participants copywrite their photos and they can’t be shared.
So that leads me to a special request of all the Undersized Urbanite participants. Please let me know either in the comments or by an email (christina at littlevictorian dot com) if you would rather I didn’t share your work on the blog.
Have a great weekend everyone!
onshore
February 22, 2013 at 7:22 pm150 spam comments is a LOT! I too have gotten like only five in about two years 🙂 Hope the spam stops.
Argh my miniature garden is still in planning stage. Well I have got the supplies, but now it has been on stand still. Thanks for the reminder and inspiration. You are free to use my pics (once I have some to share)
Christina
February 25, 2013 at 1:22 pmThanks Leena! Can’t wait to see what you have planned.
otterine
February 22, 2013 at 10:20 pmThat is crazy spam. :\ What a mess!
I sent you an email, but my messages often end up in people junk folder. I don’t know why. Anyway, if you want to use my Artist’s Studio pics for an UU update, that is fine with me. 😀
Christina
February 25, 2013 at 1:18 pmSure enough, the email was in the spam folder, so glad you said something! Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
Q
February 23, 2013 at 12:45 amI do have a watermark on my photos – but that is due to recently finding out about pinterest and being pinned so just in case there is some way of the image just ending up in the ether the watermark is there but I am quite comfortable with anything I write or photograph or post being ‘curated’ 😀 Especially if it’s here. I have an anti spam plug in that auto detects spam comments and I just go in every now and again and delete them – not sure if you can get something like that?
Christina
February 25, 2013 at 1:20 pmWatermarks are great! I love when things are watermarked on Pinterest, we don’t have to go hunting for the source.
Blogger is supposed to have a spam blocker, normally it works, but somehow these were all getting through.
Linda
February 23, 2013 at 3:29 amI am thrilled when you feature me! No issues or problems here.
Christina
February 25, 2013 at 1:20 pmExcellent, thank you!
Mini Dork
February 23, 2013 at 4:03 amWhich post was it? That is a ridiculous amount. I had one post that got about 60 spam comments in a couple of days so I ended up just disabling comments for that one post (I left a comment explaining and asking real people to comment on the next post). I think that spammers search for popular search terms or hot topics. I had a ton of spam on a post about the President and for “contests” and anytime I use “free” in the title of the post.
Another solution is to add comment moderation, and approve each message before it is published. You could set up a filter in your email inbox, so all of the comments from “anonymous” skip the inbox and go into a folder you glance at later. For me, about 1 out of every 40 “anonymous” comments is an actual real comment.
What a pain, so sorry!
Christina
February 25, 2013 at 1:22 pmIt was a post about laminating checklists of all things. I LOVE your idea of setting up a filter! Off to do that right now, thank you.
Mini Dork
February 28, 2013 at 4:54 pmBigger problem than just you… Ugh. I’m having spam issues where obvious spam that previously would have been filtered sent to spam, is now getting published and I have to manually move it to spam and delete it.
It seems that spammers found a work around Google’s/Blogger’s spam filter. If you are still having issues you may want to report them at the link below. From what I can tell, people started complaining about a month ago. Google is “working” on it, but jeesh it sucks. It’s so annoying that spam comments are getting published.
Here’s the forum if you are still having issues:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/SIWW_X6pIMc
Max
February 26, 2013 at 2:58 amheh heh, so cute of you to mention my latest and greatest ‘project’! xxx
Audra
March 3, 2013 at 9:39 pmI had to change my comment settings to allow only members of the blog. Suddenly I was literally getting 2-4 a day. When I tried to remove it, spam quickly appeared in only a couple hours – so back to members only.
Feel free to share anything you want from my blog!