Apparently dang spammers go looking for forms and submit links to whatever crap they’re hawking, some of it less than savory. So now my comment form does a quick find/replace looking for “<a href”. We’ll see how it goes, do links as they were done before. The benefit of rolling your own blog is that it’s not like anybody is going to write a script to submit blog spam on only my site (except maybe Scott, Alfonso or Austin; but they wouldn’t do it out of malice). The bad part is that if i was using WordPress or whatever there’d be a plugin to take care of this.
The number of comments would also be normalized instead of being a column in the blog post table. *hangs his head in shame*