Spam me not, nor try to
Yesterday I grumbled mildly about the way that Wordpress won’t allow superscript tags in comments, but its restrictions also have benefits. Here’s an example where a blog spammer tried to use an HTTP tag to make the page you were viewing go straight to the spam page. Happily, Wordpress ignores it. As the guy says, “I love it when things work silently in the background, protecting [you] from stupid evil people.” If only more programs were designed with a knowledge of the grifters of the Net in mind…
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Spam catcher updated, which I hope will solve problems with nice people being unable to pass comment (26 September 2005; score: 38.77%)
- Sometimes you forget that there are clueless spammers too (18 January 2005; score: 36.79%)
- Spam attack? Tell Google, and wipe out online herpes (14 July 2005; score: 36.37%)
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September 10th, 2004 at 2:57 pm
If you want to add more allowable tags for comments, edit your wp-includes/kses.php file. This is the code which enforces which tags and attributes are allowed. You can edit to include or exclude whichever tags you wish to allow.
You’ll see that there are already several pre-formatted entries for other tags, including sub- and super-scripts.