Comments on: Spammers should all DIE DIE DIE

By: Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Akismet – Automattic Kismet

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Akismet – Automattic Kismet — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:37:59 +0000

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By: big loser

big loser — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:49:44 +0000

Obviously, irrelevant, auto-submitted crap is spam; however, if someone makes an incredible comment on your site, but their site is commercial, is that spam? or does it just need to have keywords to be considered spam? I dont get it. do you? what is spam really? i am sick of people talking about spam as if it’s so black/white

By: Franz

Franz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:17:56 +0000

The title made me laugh and think “heh so true, so true..”
IP tracking wouldn’t change much I think, a bot doesn’t act from a single IP, and firewalling a whole IP range would also block out some innocent users.. plugins are the best solution right now.
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By: borje

borje — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:34:56 +0000

Very thoughtful post .

By: Bofscedetshes

Bofscedetshes — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:23:42 +0000

I think you made some good points in your post.

By: Gokkasten

Gokkasten — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:05:16 +0000

Blocking single IP's will generally not do much, I have spam messages that are similar in content coming in from IP adresses all around the world, must be some kind of bot network.

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/ )