Comments on: No More Compliments!

By: Hochzeitsvideo -dler

Hochzeitsvideo -dler — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:35:04 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.?????????????? Why????? I thouhgt there are a lot of "cool" boys here gg

By: John Labriola

John Labriola — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:00:56 +0000

I was getting hit hard too just out of now where. So annoying! Had problems implementing Akemis too, I am using Bad Behavior. It took a bit to learn the spam habits, but after two weeks spam no more!

Good luck!

By: cristian

cristian — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:58:02 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.

By: asdf asdf

asdf asdf — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:00:18 +0000

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By: Jesse Skinner

Jesse Skinner — Sun, 28 May 2006 01:39:11 +0000

I’ve found requiring JavaScript for comments has drastically reduced comment spam for me. I’ve only had one in the past several weeks (and I’m sure it was somebody doing it manually). It seems to have totally cut out bots. And if you want to still allow comments for users without JavaScript, you could add a CAPTCHA for these users.

By: Mislav

Mislav — Thu, 25 May 2006 12:48:37 +0000

For accessibility and simplicity reasons, I don't approve CAPTCHAs or image comparison techniques.

There are other (not equally) good methods:

Manual approval with whitelisting - once a user's comment is approved, subsequent comments from the same users skip approval process Empty INPUT element, styled "display:none" with a label "don't fill out this field" (for blind users) Forced comment preview as seen on dean.edwards.name Blacklisting spam patterns (as the original post demonstrates) - spam usually doesn't take so many forms

By: Mads Pedersen

Mads Pedersen — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:36:23 +0000

I've implemented a CAPTCHA-style "Spam/RoboCop" on my blog. It has effectively eliminated all spam messages since it was introduced on 2 months ago. To avoid having the user type in a code or some such thing, I ask them to compare select one of four images that is the same as a random reference image. In this case I chose images of Dirty Harry, Miami Vice and Starsky & Hutch. But of course it could be anything. :-D Feel free to try it out on this post. The blog is in Danish, but you should be able to guess what to do anyway.

By: Nick Cowie

Nick Cowie — Tue, 23 May 2006 04:47:30 +0000

If your wander over to Akismet and have a look at their stats you will see a huge spike in spam in the past few days.

I though 100 comment spam about hotels in two days was a bit much, but other people where getting 10,000 or more spam comments in that period

By: eli

eli — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:49:04 +0000

Aksimet needs a wp key, and I haven’t found a way on the wp site to get one beside signing up for a weblong on wordpress.com.

I use Spam Karma 2 to kerb my spam. Works great, and it can be a ‘major beeotch’ if you want to open up a can of whoopass on spammers. Plus it has captcha for humans if they fail the turing test

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:16:02 +0000

It’s manual approval right now Mislav. I think a member-system might be the way to go because good to spam comment ratio is about 1-100 right now.