whoahorse Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 http://www.horseblog.com/ Is there anything I can do to fight all this spam in the comment fields? Weezy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Guru Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 I will leave this to the Blog experts. Just chiming in with... I really hate spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Is there an option to moderate the comments? Then approve them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoahorse Posted April 27, 2005 Author Share Posted April 27, 2005 I will leave this to the Blog experts. Just chiming in with... I really hate spam. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I do to. I have no idea why they are spamming such a boring blog. LOL! Is there an option to moderate the comments?Then approve them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I did search around once for that..I may have to spend some more time looking. I only have that blog to show my clients what is possible - I don't really add or build on it..but that spam is horrible! Weezy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 I will leave this to the Blog experts. Just chiming in with... I really hate spam. I do to. I have no idea why they are spamming such a boring blog. LOL! Is there an option to moderate the comments?Then approve them. I did search around once for that..I may have to spend some more time looking. I only have that blog to show my clients what is possible - I don't really add or build on it..but that spam is horrible! Weezy Well, the spammers don´t need interesting blogs to advertise their stuff. I installed wordpress as a test a while ago. After two days I had made one post saying something like "This is just a test". The rest of the blog contained two posts, both were spam. My blogging ended there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Is there anything I can do to fight all this spam in the comment fields? You are using WordPress. I suggest that you give Dr Dave's Spam Karma a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striver Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) http://www.horseblog.com/ Is there anything I can do to fight all this spam in the comment fields? Weezy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Weezy Most spammers like this have bots that crawl the web looking for certain scripts. If you watch your raw server logs for a while you will notice hits looking for the standard installation of scripts like formmail, popular guestbooks, free-for-all link pages etc. The best way to fight this is to make your installation somehow non standard. For example, I had one of those free-for-all link lists on my last site. From the first day I installed it there was spam. I simply added one more required field "I agree to pay $10,000 removal fee for each spam link I post: yes, no." The spam stopped immediately, not because they were afraid of the fee, but because their bot no longer fit the required fields and someone would think twice about adding that field to a bot. Sometimes just moving the program to a non-standard location will defeat the spam bots. Check you raw logs to see what they are searching for and it might give you some ideas how to beat them. They also search google for keywords associated with such scripts, so it can help if you disallow those files or folders in robots.txt. Lee Edited April 27, 2005 by Striver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxturt Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 That's some nice advice Lee, thanks. (love the avatar ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoahorse Posted April 27, 2005 Author Share Posted April 27, 2005 Wow thanks for all the great ideas! Awesome info! Weezy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) Looks to me like you don't have the latest version. Go upgrade, then moderate comments. Get to know the blog software. There are lots of options, and some plugins you could install that help you keep it cleaner. Whoa! They've spammed posts that haven't been created yet! Go to cpanel, open phpMyAdmin, and open that database. Then go to comments and browse them. Delete all spammy comments, or they'll get appended to all new posts you create. I mean, compare the dates on the posts and on the spam, and you'll see I'm correct. Edited April 27, 2005 by annie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellringr Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Doesn't matter if you have the new WP installation or not - they both get spammed. However, I hate moderating comments. When I post a comment, I want it to show up right away, and I don't want those who post on my blog to have to wait either. ('cause you know, my blog is soooo important ) So I installed Spam Karma and I get NO spam comments coming through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseftu Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Another vote for Spam Karma. After seeing the recommendations from the good folks right here at TCH, I installed it, and it works perfectly. It sends that spam right to hell before it has a chance to mess up your blog. If you use WordPress, Spam Karma is the way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Just chiming in as another wordpress user who's been using Spam Karma for months. It keeps my blog squeeky clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjarrett Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Guys, Wordpress 1.5+ has built-in features that kill comment spammers dead. It's all in the options section. Go to www.wordpress.org and the forums will explain anything you need to know. I also use Kitten's Spaminator with GREAT results. For a while I was getting spam all the time. Now, it's been weeks since I've seen one hit. No reason to run away from blogging - if you're using Wordpress. Enjoy! -kj- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Wordpress 1.5+ has built-in features that kill comment spammers dead. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1.5 added some nice options, yes, but it's still a ways from a complete spam solution. I would strongly not recommend relying on 1.5's spam protection alone. You still really should install a 3rd party solution like spam karma or spaminator as you suggested to complement it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 I've added some words to the kill list on Wordpress 1.5. BUT, it appears trackbacks go through even if I've killed the domain it's spamvertizing. I've got .htaccess blocks, or I would have been spammed mercilessly by the latest scourge. Maybe I should install Spam Karma. As long as it doesn't kill my sample spams - getting people to spam me is hard, considering outing spammers is what I do for kicks... They get so angry, you see , and blacklist me when they find out what I do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Annie, spam karma tries and does a pretty good job killing trackback spam as well. Version 2 of spam karma will handle it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunni Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Spam Karma here too. Thank goodness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Maybe I should give this blogging thing one more chance with the spam karma installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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