+It seems to me it would be great to have some tool to filter through that...
+
+
+So it turns out it was over 3000 comments. The vast majority of those (every one but 42 comments) were from the IP `46.161.41.34` which i recommend null-routing everywhere. I used the following shell magic to figure that out:
+
+<pre>
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+cd .ikiwiki/transient || {
+ echo could not find comments, make sure you are in a ikiwiki source directory.
+ exit 1
+ }
+# count the number of comments
+echo found $(find . -name '*._comment_pending' | wc -l) pending comments
+# number of comments per IP
+echo IP distribution:
+find . -name '*._comment_pending' | xargs grep -h ip= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
+# generate a banlist for insertion in `banusers`, assuming all the
+# pending comments are spam
+echo banlist would look like:
+find . -name '*._comment_pending' | xargs grep -h ip= | sort -u| sed 's/ ip="//;s/"//;s/^/- ip(/;s/$/)/'
+
+echo to remove comments from a specific IP, use one of those:
+find . -name '*._comment_pending' | xargs grep -h ip= | sort -u \
+ | sed 's/ ip="//;s/"//;' \
+ | while read ip; do
+ echo "find . -name '*._comment_pending' | xargs grep -l 'ip=\"$ip\"'| xargs rm"
+ done
+echo to flush all pending comments, use:
+echo "find . -name '*._comment_pending' -delete"
+</pre>
+
+The remaining 42 comments I reviewed throught the web interface, then flushed using the above command. My final addition to the banlist is:
+
+<pre>
+- ip(159.224.160.225)
+- ip(176.10.104.227)
+- ip(176.10.104.234)
+- ip(188.143.233.211)
+- ip(193.201.227.41)
+- ip(195.154.181.152)
+- ip(213.238.175.29)
+- ip(31.184.238.11)
+- ip(37.57.231.112)
+- ip(37.57.231.204)
+- ip(46.161.41.34)
+- ip(46.161.41.199)
+- ip(95.130.13.111)
+- ip(95.181.178.142)
+</pre>
+
+ --[[anarcat]]
+
+Update: i made a script, above. And the banlist is much larger now so the above list is pretty much out of date now... --[[anarcat]]