My spammer came back for another visit, so I decided to have a bit of fun. Here is my second WordPress plugin: TarPit (txt, phps).
What it does
If you have any IP numbers listed in your moderation_keys setting (that’s where you put the spam words in the Comment Moderation setting under Discussion Options), this plugin will check them against the current visitor’s IP number. If it matches, the visitor will get a delay (that’s the tar pit — it slows them down), then an “Access Denied” message. You can customize the delay time and the message of course. Advanced users can also add additional IP matches manually, should they so desire. You might want to do that in order to match against an entire IP block, for instance.
If you’re looking for a more humorous spammer deterrent, try Kitten’s Comment Pay. The main difference here is that with “Comment Pay”, the spammer still gets to post a comment. With TarPit, the spammer cannot access any page controlled by WordPress. At all.
Update: I meant to mention this before, but this works great in conjunction with Kitten’s Spam Words Plugin. Anytime you “Delete comment as spam”, the offender’s IP number will automatically be added to your moderation_keys.
Update 2, Aug 27, 2004: Bumped to version 1.1 and added a check for the case where you don’t yet have any IP numbers in your list.
Update 3, Sep 9, 2004: Bumped to version 1.2. Added option to email you when the trap is triggered (enabled by default).
Update 4, Oct 26, 2004: Bumped to version 1.3. Spammers will now get an HTTP 403 “Forbidden” status code, and the output is set to “text/plain”.
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I agree with Frank about other information can all be used in the filtering process, because some of the universities and Libraries and other institutions share the same IP for all students and this is my case, always finding my IP to be blocked while I never entered the site before.
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It seems that when i activate tarpit characters on my site go weird. Ive got á and é and the likes in my site and it these ones which get changed through the site. Any ideas on a fix?
I disagree with the idea that blocking IP’s is bad. The reality is there are large blocks of IP’s that are truly bad. They are the source of a great deal of spam. Not only that but they are outside my reader area as in outside the country. Almost all of them are in Asia, primarily in China. I block them not just from my blog but also from all email and web site access to all of my web sites. They do not matter to me and they were creating a heavy load on my servers. Since blocking them my spam load has gone way down. Unblocking them allows more spam. Reblocking them fixes it. They’ll stay blocked.
Spammers Tarpit…
Spammers tarpit has been posted. It’s a plugin that’s supposed to ask spammers to go away. Not an ideal solution as far as I can say. I’d prefer just increasing the delay, first a minute, then a minute and a half, until they go away. …
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that’s too tight! can i put an hour’s delay?
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See one of my earlier comments. Also note in the plugin source code, if you enable email notification, it says this:
See my SpamValve project for an IP-blocking option which dynamically unblocks hosts after a period of inactivity.
I personally think this is a dangerous route, because IP-blocking only works for a short time. Unless you flush your IP list from time to time, you could be blocking legitimate users.
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