370K spam comments in one day

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 ~ msgracefulnot ~ 30 Comments

I swear to anyone listening that no one can make this shit up! If anyone wonders, why I swear so much….this is ONE example.

No that is not a typo!….. What it is, is just my luck!…. I spent a good hour yesterday emptying my spam folder. (even with bulk edit, it only lets you empty 20 at a time). I had almost 2000 comments in spam, so it did take awhile.

I don’t know if you can read that, but when I was done yesterday it said I had -17 spam comments. Not sure how they came up with that number either, like I said just my luck?

When I signed into WP this afternoon after running all my errands this morning, I had 370K

Before I was done chatting with “WP support” I had another 7000.

When I started writing this I thought I was “gonna go off” about this, but to tell you the truth now, I am just plain exhausted. Below is a copy of the chat with wp:

I emptied my spam folder yesterday and today I have 370k comments in spam. Can you do a mass delete for me?

Help?

Hi there!

Hello

What type of spam are you talking about please? Is it comment spam?

yes

Ok, Comments can be managed via the WP Admin area of your site here:

https://yoursite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

Click on that link and then on Comments tab on the left bar.

You can then select the spam comments and at the top of the comments list

that is what i did yesterday and I deleted all the spam comments 20 at a time

i got 370k overnight

I see.

In this case I advise you to blacklist this spam source

how do I do that?

You can do that by coping the email address of the spam comment and pasting it in the Blacklist textarea in this settings page here:

https://yourwebsite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

the messages are coming from no email address

Do you have an example for me to help you?

You may copy the IP address as well.

I mean instead of the email address.

you cant sign into my account?

ip is the www address?

The IP address appears below the comment author’s gravatar

The IP address is a number

I’ll send you a screenshot, hang on, please.

i think i found it

how do you add multiple ip addresses

Ok, one per line

and is there not a way to do a “mass dump”?

Actually no, the same IP needs to be added just once.

czadh@gxjyt.bo 6 minutes ago·www.herpescured.com

jbqxkqkot@yjhn.hk

they are all different ip addresses

I advise you to activate the comments option that makes name and email required.

i just want to make sure you are telling me I have to add them all manually? there isn’t on dump all spam bucket

Yes, that’s correct.

OMG!

There isn’t a way to add those IPs or emails automatically.

We already have an anti-spam tool

I thought so too, but why did I get so many?

askimet right?

it is working but the comments that passes through it, they need to be marked as spam or blacklisted manually.

Yes, correct.

ok, well ty for your time, I apparently have a lot of work to do

I think this comment option is really important to activate.

but it still wont dump the ones there

No, it’s just to avoid that amount of spam.

In the future

one last question

Sure thing!

sarcastic question

has anyone else ever had that much spam in one day

or am i just lucky?

I can’t tell, but making name and email requirements, makes it more difficult to robots send spams

Ok ty for your help. Have a nice day

Did I mention you can’t make this shit up?!?!?

Needless to say, I am NOT going to go through an add all of those ip addresses, and I am kind of disappointment that they were not able to help other than to suggest that I only let people with a wp account comment. That is what I have done for now.

I was thinking of switching to self hosted next month, maybe things will change for the better then. In the meantime, I apologize if you can’t comment on a post.

Has anyone ever had a problem like this? Help? Advice? Tips?

A long walk (part 2)

July 10, 2018October 5, 2018 ~ msgracefulnot ~ 17 Comments

Part 2 of A long walk

So there I lay on the floor in my kitchen. Apparently I was able to call my daughter’s name before I collapsed. When I “came to”, she was crying, yelling my name, and attempting to clean up the blood on my face and legs. She told me she had called 911 and asked me what had happened.

The paramedics arrived quickly and suggested that I let them take me to the hospital. NO!!!!!! This was not my first rodeo, and besides that how would I get home and who would stay with my daughter? After passing their “awareness tests”: “What day is today? What’s your name? Where are you? Who is the president?”, they gave me a list of symptoms to watch out for and left.

I let Thing Two put a contraption like this on my face/head for a few days, and I slept ALOT. ( being woken up by someone every couple of hours as the paramedics recommended) After about a week, I was left with remnants of a black eye, the swelling of my chin in the above picture and a bit of road rash on my hands and knee.

I tried to begin walking again after a couple of weeks, but I couldn’t bring myself to leave the house on foot. I was terrified that I would fall again and wouldn’t be able to make it back up. My neighbors and my kids had done enough “babysitting” ,and I didn’t want to be a burden any longer. I found myself on Amazon ordering a complete set of protection gear including hand/wrist guards and knee and elbow pads, but it would take a couple days to arrive.

Time for a road trip

Thing two went to stay with a friend for a couple days, and I hired someone to dog sit for the weekend. As I was making the 3 hour drive to Einstein’s current house, I started to get a headache. I popped a couple advil and continued on my way. (Advil tablets are a permanent staple in my purse, along with bandaids, xanax etc)

When I arrived at Einstein’s I immediately went to lay down and fell asleep quickly. My MS Bladder woke me up after about an hour and I tried to sit up. TRIED being the operative word. My head felt like it was going to explode, and I quickly laid back down. What the fuck was that?!?!?!?

After lying there for a few moments, the pain in my head disappeared and my bladder started screaming again. Once more I tried to sit up. This time my head did explode in the form of projectile vomiting. I managed to crawl into the bathroom, empty my bladder, and slept on the floor for the next few hours.

When I woke up, I cleaned myself and the mess up and crawled back into bed, where I stayed for the next two days.

What the fuck kind of ‘flu’ is this? Why did my head want to blow up everytime I sat up, and then the pain go away almost as soon as I laid back down? How was I going to get back home?

to be continued……

A very LONG walk

July 9, 2018October 5, 2018 ~ msgracefulnot ~ 27 Comments

I don’t know if I have ever talked about it before, but I used to be STUCK in a wheelchair. It was 2009, before I started Tysabri Infusions. I won’t give all the credit the that I am again walking to Tysabri, but it has been very effective at slowing down the frequency of my MS flares and relapses. There was also a stay in a rehab facility and a solid year of physical therapy 3 x a week once I was discharged. I have also been on Ampyra for, hmm I don’t know how many years as well. (If you have never heard of it, Ampyra is known as the “walking drug” for MS.)

A few years ago, I had worked up to being able to walk for a full mile at a time without having to stop or take a break. That’s NOT to say I wasn’t ‘down’ for the rest of the day, or that there were not a few falls ( and bone breaks ) involved, but I went from wheelchair to walking, and I was so proud of myself!!!! I had even begun taking my dogs for my morning walk, until that ONE DAY!

When I woke up that morning, I didn’t really feel like walking, but if therapy taught me anything it was IF YOU DON’T USE IT, you LOSE it. So I dragged my ass out of bed, brushed my teeth, coffeed, leashed the dogs, and headed out the door.

When my dogs went through obedience and therapy dog training, they were each ‘assigned’ different sides, D. O. G walks on the left, and SNUFF walks on the Right. (in the picture they are reversed) I wrapped each of their leashes around my hands tightly, and would soon find out that I had made a HORRIFIC mistake in doing so.

Both dogs could sense that I wasn’t feeling well and weren’t behaving as well as they normally did. (They were competing for my attention and walking under my feet.) I was very grateful to be rounding the last corner of the block (I was less than 200 feet from my front door)

The “Scene of the Crime”

This building was a barber shop, and the barber had come out to empty his trash. When he saw me he waved and called “hello” as he did 100 times before. For some reason, both dogs pulled in different directions and down I went…… literally something like this….

I landed directly on my chin and was pulled/dragged toward the un-offending man while he ran back in the store. (In his defense, he did TRY to come back out to help me up, but the dog’s seemed to have lost their minds when I fell and would not let him anywhere near me)

Somehow I got the dog’s under control and was finally able to stand up and limp home. I made it in my front door, called out to thing 2 and immediately collapsed again.

(to be continued)

I don’t think I made it clear when I posted this, this was a couple years ago. Sorry if I mislead anyone

Teaching my phone to swear

July 7, 2018October 5, 2018 ~ msgracefulnot ~ 25 Comments

Those of you that have ever talked to me on the phone, in person, gotten a text message from me etc, know that I have a “potty mouth”.. Not only do I frequently talk about “potty” and my bag of pee, but I just can’t seem to utter more than a few sentences without a cuss word or two popping out. Popping, not pooping, although I do talk about pooping or not being able to alot also.

Last month, or the month before, I had to do a warranty trade on my smartphone, which in my opinion is Not very smart, although some would claim operator error. 😦

I have always struggled with the talk and type technology, because I speak quickly and do not enunciate. This was proven when I asked my kids to “fix the damn phone” and they politely explained that I don’t enunciate when I speak. To prove them wrong, I turned on the talk and type and said “ENUNCIATE”, the phone responded by typing E9C8!

SMDH AGAIN!

So now I have this ‘New’ smartphone AND I am cutting down on the number of cigarettes I smoke each day, in effort to quit on August 15, 2018, so needless to say I have been swearing a bit more lately.

After talking out a message that contained some “cuss words”, I forgot to turn off the talk and type feature on my phone before I said,

“It’s not duck, the word is fuck. I really don’t understand your objection to ass, and on that note what the hell is wrong with shit or even hell? It’s not like I used all the words in one sentence”

My phone typed….

” It’s not duck, the word is duck. I really don’t understand your objection to ASK, and on that note what the he’ll is wrong with fit or even ****?

Immediately after reading that I said, “Bastard”, which for the record translated into “Last Turd”.

So I have decided to teach my phone to swear. I have been correcting THEN saving each of the words that it misspells or ***** out. So far I have added

piece of shit

fuck

shit

damn

hell

I cant say the C word, but it would probably come out as CANT anyway.

This morning I said, “I am coffeeing” which I know is technically not a word (its a way of life). The phone typed doddering…which I left because I probably was.

Can you think of anything that I am missing? When the day comes that I am finally ready to tell that ONE person that got on my last nerve off, I want to be prepared.

So I did a thing….

July 5, 2018October 5, 2018 ~ msgracefulnot ~ 54 Comments

Okay, I have been doing SEVERAL things, which I would like to tell you about in another post, but first, let me tell you what I did today.

I glued myself to the floor! YES I SAID I GLUED MYSELF TO THE FLOOR. Go ahead shake your head, I’m still shaking mine…smh

No I wasn’t bored!…. No I wasn’t drinking! and NO I didn’t actually TRY to glue myself to the floor, but it happened nonetheless.

Do you remember back in February, when I talked redoing my bathroom? I talked about how physical labor has always been a stress relief for me. Well I finished the bathroom and went on to other construction projects, one of which was hanging shelving in my utility room. I ran out of time and money to actually finish doing the laundry room before I left for Texas, but I did get the shelving hung up before I left.

So picture this please.

This is my itty bitty laundry room. To hang the shelves, I had to pull out the washer and dryer. I THOUGHT, I put everything back, but I literally finished hanging the shelves the night before I left (last month).

This is the other side of the laundry room wall

Yah the tub is in and it Finally works beautifully. ( yes there were some hiccups in getting the heater on the whirlpool working 😦 but it’s done)

When I got home from my road trip, I was so looking forward to a long soak, but instead, I opened the bathroom door to find the entire floor covered with water. Water that had been sitting for over a week while I was gone……awww come on!!!!! smh again….

I cleaned up all the water, bleached the floor, dumped the towels I had used to clean up the floor in the washing machine, and went to the store for groceries. After I finished putting the groceries away, I headed back into the bathroom…..THE ENTIRE FLOOR WAS WET AGAIN!!!!!!

I said a whole lotta cuss words….and OMG if it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all!!!!

Remember when I said I THOUGHT, I had put everything away in the laundry room?…Well I didn’t. I forgot to put the hose from the washing machine back in the drain, and instead it was running directly into my bathroom.

I wish I could tell you that I figured out the problem immediately, but to be honest it took a few more times, and the laundry room floor getting wet for me to figure it out.

I had hoped that bleaching the floor and using a dehumidifier would help the lifted tiles settle back into place, but not only were the tiles lifting but the plywood underneath was bowing.

I set out this morning to lift the tiles to see how bad of shape the subfloor was in. Could I just bleach it again, and have a plywood floor for a little while, while I saved the money to have the floor repaired? I am/was not looking forward to pulling out the plywood, since when I put it in, I put it in to stay…..

So I started pulling up the tiles, bleaching the plywood as I went, until I bloodied my knuckles and put the bleach aside. I closed the bathroom door and kneeled on the plywood to try to remove the final (for the day) pieces. And then I realized I was stuck! I was literally glued to the floor! I don’t know if the bleach had somehow bonded with the adhesive, or if I stayed in one place for too long, but I couldn’t move.

When she was done laughing at me, Thing 2, pulled me and I think some of my skin off of the floor.

Anyone wonder how I got the nickname Grace?!?!?!?

I think my legs look better than they did before. But my bathroom floor will look like this for awhile.