No problem. I’m sure that page doesn’t get a whole lot of visitors anymore… so hardly any people have probably seen the comment.

The “Close Old Posts” plugin is a great idea for a site like Techcrunch that is based on breaking news. It wouldn’t work so well for many sites that want to foster continued discussion… but works perfect for your site focus.

Kudos on the quick action! Keep up the good work over there and we’ll chat soon.

Cheers,

- Trevor

Thanks for the heads up. We’ve removed the offending spam.

For spam filtering, we currently use Akismet, manual overseeing (which is hard to keep up), and also we use the ‘Close Old Posts’ WordPress plugin to turn off comments on posts after a couple of weeks.

Cheers,
-Henry