This outage has been brought to you by comment spammers.

Unlike the previous spammers, who spammed every 20 minutes and in numerical order allowing me to foil them, these go through every minute or two and in random order. Also, unlike the Online Gambling ones, which actually posited a thought or something, these just advertise.

I tried installing CommentControl last night and it's still bringing up a parsing error. I suppose that means I'm going to have to try to find another way around it. Unfortunately, if I get attacked again in the same manner I did last night, I'll have to take the site down again (albeit more temporarily)

I'm looking in to other solutions.

Either my software can't disable contents entirely (which is better than taking the whole site down) or I can't figure out how.

But until I get this figured out, I can't deal with comments flooding the site at a rate of 50 an hour.

Update: With some help from Kevin, I found the settings that I needed. Right now only "members" can post comments. I'm trying to see if that will deflect the spammers before coming up with a solution to the problem.

There's no reason that the spammers should be able to post without an account (considering y'all can't), but I'm currently under attack by a third spamming company that can actually post to my blog even when it's disabled.