WordPress Themes by Sadish

on January 5th, 2005Comment Spam Again !

I thought I have found a solution to the Spam Problem…but then again, the spammers become more intelligent.

The only dumb way I can handle this issue is to have all the comments go through moderation before it gets published.

so if you leave a comment on this website, it may not appear immediately.

Thanks.

3 responses so far Sadish General

Jason Stareon 12 Jan 2005 at 3:55 pm 1

Have you researched any plugins to help? I run

IP Blocklist
http://charles.gagalac.us/wordpress-plugins/ip-blocklist/

Three Strike
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/09/24/three-strikes-and-out-damned-spam-out-i-say/

ALong with renaming my wp-comments-post.php file and implementing a comment preview before posting.

All that combined has keped not only my site spam free, but these 3 as well:

http://www.momwithattitude.com
http://www.arcadian-expressions.com
http://moodymama.com/

None have reported any spam since those changes were made.
bwanaon 16 Jan 2005 at 1:46 pm 2

i’m having the best luck after implementing authimage. it forces the commenter to authenticate their comment with a random string of text and numbers (shown as an image) before their comment is submitted. so far, i’ve went from 10-20 comment spams a day to none. worth a try at least.
single womenon 31 Aug 2007 at 11:29 pm 3

Skin on skin- is that too forward???
We are only looking for couples and single females.
http://www.uinlove.com Single males are automatically filtered out and never reach our inbox.
It always amuses us that single guys cannot read and think that if they email us they will be the “one”
that breaks down that rule and makes us just gotta get together with them.