Last night, a spammer tried to post comments to a variety of posts, from a variety of IP numbers. The spammer also tried to obfuscate his text by using HTML encoded entities for some of the text in the links (which were to a variety of sites for online gambling or pharmecuticals). None of them ever showed up here. They were all auto-moderated by WordPress. I was able to delete all 64 of the attempted spams from my moderation queue with just a few mouse clicks.
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that is awesome – i need something to keep anon users from commenting
WordPress pwns j00!!1
This spammers just KILLD blog of my friend, about 3000 comments per night!!!!!! He was shockt!!!!
Wordpress’ Askimet plugin is pure spam-free bliss now, I love it.
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s funny because this exact technique has been used as a counter-measure to spam for quite some time to “safely†publish email addresses, on the theory that an automated email address harvester won’t be smart enough to resolve the entities. (sounds like the same guy hit Dougal’s site too)