Because spammers are bombarding my server again and I don't feel like seeing a ton of spam in the moderation queue, I've activated wp-questionnaire. For now, there's a more or less silly question that needs to be answered for a comment to appear on the pages. Sorry, it's unfortunately necessary at the moment - it's about 30-40 spam comments per day. Yes, they only end up in moderation, but it's still simply annoying.
Once the situation with the spammers has calmed down, I'll probably turn it off again. If anyone notices anything strange regarding the comment function, just let me know (but better via the feedback page and not via the comments).
The TC Trustcenter has filed for insolvency - ouch. There was nothing in the media to suggest this - suddenly gone. Quite annoying, because in .de there aren't many places where you can get server certificates that are also accepted in browsers with standard delivery ...
As a further action due to the ongoing spam wave, I have disabled trackbacks and pingbacks on my site. I never really liked trackbacks anyway - the technical concept is ridiculous. Pingbacks are technically better implemented - due to the stronger focus on backlinking - but they are visually just awful: the technically generated excerpts just look like shit.
If someone wants to comment, they can comment - and a comment can also contain a backlink. And for everything else, there are the usual curiosity tools - and their link search works quite well (although I have also found mountains of link spam there - some stupid spammer pseudo-blog had a bunch of links to me for a while and ended up in my Technorati evaluations).
Since I am consistent, I will also no longer send out trackbacks and pingbacks if I don't accept them myself. Sorry, but my time is too precious to manually clean up garbage from a technically unfinished protocol ...