Comments on: Spammers should all DIE DIE DIE

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:13:46 +0000

Unfortuantely there are increasing numbers of spam bots on the net. The only way to reduce them and possibly stop them altogether is to put a captcha (search on google) on your comments form. They usually can’t get around the complexity of reading text from an image.

By: Tails1

Tails1 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:03:45 +0000

How about a honeypot for comment spam? What I did was I set up additional blog pages under the same domain as my blog with hidden links from my real blog. I use a robots.txt to keep the search engines off it and use random gibberish for posts. (a script could be used to keep the posts dynamic and random) There should be no way normal users can see these pages and no reason a legitimate user would comment as the posts are random words. You can be as creative as you want to make these honeypot pages appealing to spammers automated tools. (spammy words, trackback pings to spam blogs etc…) Use comment challenge and/or Captcha on your real page(s) and leave it turned off for the honeypot ones. The automated spam bots fall for it every time and soon as a comment is posted to the honeypot pages, the ip belonging to it gets blocked at the perimeter firewall. I rarely see comment spam done by hand at least on my blog and for the bit that I do get I just delete. If it gets worse I could try SpamLookup or something else. Bottom line is there is lots of creative ways to deal with spammers no matter what kind, you just have to think about it. Try it next time your in the shower thats what I do

By: jens

jens — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:11:34 +0000

It seems that Bad Behavior will stop my SPAM-ING Problems for my comment script. I think I am gonne try it out. Thanks for the advice..
Greets Jens ( http://www.isoliert.de/forums/ )

By: Nofollow revisited - Homeland Stupidity

Nofollow revisited - Homeland Stupidity — Sat, 13 May 2006 16:52:36 +0000

[...] If you’ve been running a blog, you are quite well aware that nofollow has done little or nothing to stop comment spam. In some cases they are hitting blogs so hard as to generate denial of service conditions, even when the blogs use rel=”nofollow”! I am so sick of the damn spammers. Spammers are teh sux0r. Spammers are a festering boil on the ass of the Internets. I wouldn’t let a spammer kiss my butt with a pair of wax lips from ten feet away. If I ever see a spammer bleeding in a ditch, I will not be a Good Samaritan, I will kick him in the head, cover him up with dirt, and leave him there to rot. — Dougal Campbell [...]

By: DVD Movie Man

DVD Movie Man — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:42:22 +0000

I think that the best solution is one similar to movable type. You can’t worry about the few who cant post b/c of visual impairment. You seem to be spending a lot of time on spam. Is that worth the few visually impaired visitors you receive? Good luck.

By: Lunacy Unleashed » Automattic Kismet

Lunacy Unleashed » Automattic Kismet — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:26:33 +0000

[...] You may not think this is important, especially if you have never received a large amount of spam at once. But the day is coming when you will, and having that first line of defense can mean the difference between your site staying up, and your Web host shutting off your site. Spammers can easily hit you so hard as to create denial-of-service conditions, and Bad Behavior has been proven to mitigate this effect. In fact, it’s even stood up to the Slashdot effect without blinking. [...]

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:07:40 +0000

A fitting punishment for spammers that are caught would be hanging them upside down from a tree and feeding them ex-lax for a week. Just my 2 cents…

By: IO ERROR » Nofollow revisited

IO ERROR » Nofollow revisited — Mon, 23 May 2005 10:26:15 +0000

[...] nothing to stop comment spam. In some cases they are hitting blogs so hard as to generate denial of service conditions, even when the blogs use rel=”nofollow”! [...]

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Mon, 23 May 2005 09:05:03 +0000

Nofollow revisited

It’s been about four months now since Google introduced nofollow to the web. Since then it’s been adopted by every major blogging platform, as well as many other wiki, forum and CMS platforms. Now that nofollow is everywhere, it’s ti…

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Sun, 22 May 2005 13:21:15 +0000

That has to be one of the most creative comment spams I’ve seen in a long time.

Dougal, I’m interested to know if you’ve tried Bad Behavior, and if so, if it helped with reducing your server load. Also I wanted to let you know that I have launched the Bad Behavior Blackhole which specifically lists open proxies and other IP addresses from which link spam has been received (by anyone). It’s still officially a work in progress, but it has data in it and it’s usable.