---
title: "Comment spam wave"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/comment-spam-wave.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/comment-spam-wave.html"
published: "2004-05-21T20:34:00"
updated: "2004-05-21T20:34:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm getting comment spam (about 50 in the past two hours or so), and for some reason .Text won't let me disable my comments. Already mailed Scott about it but thought maybe anyone had a quick fix for this?"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Comment spam wave

By Roy Osherove May 21, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 21, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

I'm getting comment spam (about 50 in the past two hours or so), and for some reason .Text won't let me disable my comments. Already mailed Scott about it but thought maybe anyone had a quick fix for this?

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- May 22, 2004

    ### [Peli's blog - a great unit testing information center](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/pelis-blog-a-great-unit-testing-information-center.html)

- May 22, 2004

    ### [HOWTO: fight back the current spam scum](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/howto-fight-back-the-current-spam-scum.html)

- May 21, 2004

    ### [T- (11+30) + explanation + apology](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/t-1130-explanation-apology.html)

- May 20, 2004

    ### [Blog like nobody's reading](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/blog-like-nobodys-reading.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/