From cefeeec11a996541aa4b977c547c7aac2bfeafd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rawleyIfowler <rawleyIfowler@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 16:15:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] adjusted spam filter to work for values around 20 characters,
 to stop spam of short proportions

---
 controllers/blog.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/controllers/blog.go b/controllers/blog.go
index 11ddc94..6eb95fa 100644
--- a/controllers/blog.go
+++ b/controllers/blog.go
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ func CreateComment(c *gin.Context) {
 		c.Request.Form.Get("content"),
 		c.Request.Form.Get("url"),
 		c.Request.Form.Get("captcha")}
-	if len(a[1]) > 180 && len(*GetCommentsByContent(a[1], a[2])) > 0 {
+	// If the length of the comment is great enough, and the comment already exists we can safely assume it is spam.
+	if len(a[1]) > 20 && len(*GetCommentsByContent(a[1], a[2])) > 0 {
 		c.HTML(http.StatusNotAcceptable, "comment_post_failed.tmpl", CommentDto{Url: a[2]})
 		return
 	}