Comments on: Blocking WordPress Comment Spam /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/ Tips and tricks to get technology to work for you, by Michael Boyd Clark Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-14600 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:26:32 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-14600 I stopped using Bad Behavior too…it started blocking all my visitors. For anti-spam, I use WP-SpamFree and Akismet. It’s a killer combo.

]]> By: Rosie Manning /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-14298 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:21:18 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-14298 Oh..I see. Maybe we should suggest to the developer of Bad Behavior to make a feature that would let use manually add a whitelist.

This might sound funny, but recently I was blocked from my own site by Bad Behavior! But all is working fine now 🙂

]]> By: Michael Clark /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-14296 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:11:56 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-14296 Hi Rosie, Bad Behavior blocked some family members who are behind a proxy at their jobs, so I don’t use it any more.

]]> By: Rosie Manning /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-14294 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:46:22 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-14294 Wow…20,000 spam is quite a lot. I just don’t really get it why would spammers waste time on trying to spam sites. Most people nowadays already know what SPAM messages or comments looks like and will simply ignore it.

I just want to point out that the Bad Behavior plugin can also reduce the chance spam bot from posting spam.

Anyways, this an interesting guide and I will definitely keep this page on my bookmark 🙂

Cheers!

]]> By: Michael Boyd Clark Journal/Blog /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-13944 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:58:26 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-13944 Akismet 20,000 spam caught…

I just checked my Akismet spam listing, and see that at some point on October 20th, 2007, Akismet tagged the 20,000th spam comment on my blog. Wow, amazing. And that is…

]]> By: Jeff Chan /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-13261 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:42:26 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-13261 Hey Mike,

This is Jeff from topicblogs. The “kittens” url has nothing to do with us, and we’re certainly not spamming anyone! 🙂

We’re currently in (an extended) private beta. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Jeff Chan

]]> By: Gareth Heyes /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-13126 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:26:15 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-13126 I’ve developed a plugin that is 100% effective against automated comment spam, check it out :-
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spambam/

]]> By: Michael Clark /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-13121 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:41:37 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-13121 Hi Duncan, yes, there are systems that help fight with the spam. I’m adding in a new step that will prevent the crud from even getting into those systems in the first place.

]]> By: Duncan /2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-13118 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:51:42 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/04/02/blocking-wordpress-comment-spam/#comment-13118 Personally, I’ve found Spam Karma 2 to be extremely effective at stemming the flow of spam from bots etc. I get a summary once per day of posts that didn’t quite make the cutoff point – I’ve never had to rescue a comment. It uses metrics like speed of posting (some posters manage to post a (long) comment within .1 of a second of visiting the page.. if that’s not a bot, I want to know how they’re using the ‘net), age of the article, distributed blacklists etc.

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