The new direction of Sanctuary is one I’m much happier with.  It doesn’t have that draggy feeling the original was giving me.

I went through the blog subscribers and eliminated around 70 that either showed up in the spam database, had names that looked plain spammy, or came from the .ru/.pl domains.  Hope I didn’t get any legitimate subscribers, but I’m trying to clean up things now that the new anti-spam plugin is catching the spam subscribers before they can clutter my database 😀

I am so loving this spam database.  It’s like the Roach Motel for spammers.  They check in, but they don’t check out.

Not that I’m complaining about the standard plug-in that catches spam comments.  It does a wonderful job as well, and hasn’t let a single spam comment come through.  It just wasn’t stopping spam registrations, and this one is 🙂  It’s the double-whammy.

When you combine that with the same spam protection on the forum, my website is now wonderfully free of spammers.  I smile every morning when I get up and evening when I get home from work as I review the error log of banned spammers desperately trying to log in or post spam.

I’m going to try to remember to start adding tags to my blog posts, in order to better index in search engines.  That’s good for everybody, because it can lead to more feedback, which helps my motivation, which gets more stories out.