Blog spam
I have recently being getting a lot of comment spam in the blog.
WordPress luckily has some “minor” spam protection as default, but I still have to moderate the spam manually. What solutions do you all use out there in the blogging community?
I would love to know how people deal with it and maybe then I could post an article to help other bloggers like myself.
November 18th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
None I gave up on my Wordpress Blog because of the spam. Sorry to be so unhelpful.
November 18th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
I find that Word Verification on blogger helps cut it down.
November 18th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
thanks for the suggestions, I hope I can find a solution to the problem as it is driving me mad!
Maybe I can find something like “word Verification” for Wordpress.
*wanders off to google*
November 18th, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Ed - captcha can be useful if implemented correctly, but it can also be painful. I use IO Error’s bad behavior (sic) plugin which works very well.
November 19th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
thanks Michele, I will give it a go. What sorts of volume of spam where you getting?
November 20th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
i’ve only been using wordpress a few weeks but so far so good with spam karma 2
November 20th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Hey Janine, I only started to get “serious” amounts of blog spam in the last week or so.
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out if I have any genuine comments amongst the ones marked spam.
I hope you do not experience the same problems I do.
December 4th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I gave up on Wordpress for exactly that reason and went to Serendipity instead. Anyway, one solution for me was to rename the php files responsible for posting comments to another name. Cant remember the filenames right now, though. It involved a bit of manual work in some files, but did take care of a bunch of spam mails. Filtering comments by blacklist or subject can also do the trick, but might of course cause problems with genuine comments.