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By: Ryan McDonnell - » Stop comment spam on a Wordpress blog

Ryan McDonnell - » Stop comment spam on a Wordpress blog — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:42:58 +0000

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By: Baxter Tocher

Baxter Tocher — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:24:38 +0000

Apologies if I’ve missed it (I can only see two green “boxes” above from the author, and I can’t see it there), but what IS the recommended WordPress plug-in?

By: Ryan McDonnell

Ryan McDonnell — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:51:51 +0000

Rename wp-comments-post.php to something else.

Create a blank wp-comments-post.php file (just so that the spammers still get a 200 HTTP status code)

Edit the “comments” page in template:
Leave the “action” attribute pointing to the default wp-comments-post.php page. Add some Javascript to the FORM tag’s “onSubmit” method. Something like:

onsubmit=”this.action=’location-of-new-wp-comments-post.php’; return true;”

Anyone with Javascript enabled (nearly 100%) will be able to post comments but the spam bots (which do not parse Javascript) will not.

You can even obfuscate the Javascript code further by throwing in some random concatenation…

onsubmit=”this.action=’location’ + ‘-of-new-wp-comments-post.’ + ‘php’; return true;”

… or setting the URL in a variable and referencing the variable instead.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:13:45 +0000

I think my comments seem to get sucked up by Akismet I guess, I posted a comment about the BBC article from last week but it never showed up.

Who knows if this comment will show up either!

By: Ayal Rosenthal

Ayal Rosenthal — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:20:04 +0000

I guess my curiousity is how many anonymous comments does TechCrunch receive, and what does it consider anonymous?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:08:58 +0000

As an able bodied user, I have no problem with Captcha. I think claims to the contrary are overreaching, perhaps exageration by advocates for the disabled.

By: TechYob

TechYob — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:04:46 +0000

Bad Behaviour is another comment-spam filtering tool that can prevent a site from being accessed at the IP level.

I understand the author worked on Akismet in the early days.

By: Ulf (ULE)

Ulf (ULE) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:54:45 +0000

Am I the only one lamenting the two week timeout? I kind of like how some unique or especially illuminating old blog posts continue to live their own life in the comments and on Google. That’s part of the internet and blog magic for me, to see things take on their own life, and morph, and spawn new ideas and discussions that weren’t intended.

The old blog post about “post secret” that You (TechCrunch) linked to a few weeks back - don’t you regret missing out on that kind of continous commenting over the years?

Even if it doesn’t happen all too often, you must have at something like 10-100 blogposts that continue to get well deserved traffic through google long after their debut and among those, there must be some legitimate continuing of some kind of discussion?

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How to start a clothing line from scratch — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:22:32 +0000

we get a whopping 50 spam comments a day!

By: Advertisespace

Advertisespace — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:58:10 +0000

I couldn’t have comments on my blog without it.
Thanks Akismet!

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:28:19 +0000

I think the amount of spam just depends on how big the site is. I used to get at 50 a day one blog and then around 10 on another but 15,000 a day is really big.

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By: Elias

Elias — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:22:35 +0000

Oh my god, this is really many spam. On my site i get 50-100 spam comments or trackbacks. But, Akismet works fine.

By: the1gofer

the1gofer — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:46:45 +0000

I get 400-500 every day, and I don’t get a fraction of even that number of visitors. I wish their was something to be done. It seems like a societal problem more than anything else. Those people responsible aren’t concerned about anyone other than them selfs and the money they are making. And societal problems are much harder to fix than computer problems.

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:08:10 +0000

I don’t get anywhere near as many as you do, but I certainly get a lot. We need to encourage search engines like Google to set up a way where we can forward them unwanted spam comments, and if they get a certain number of them they will blacklist the domain that the spammers are hoping to increase the page rank for.

By: Gareth Heyes

Gareth Heyes — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:55:50 +0000

Hi,

You might want to try my plugin it requires no captchas and we haven’t had a single spam comment on our site. Try it out:-
http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2007/02/12/spambam/

Cheers

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:46:49 +0000

If anyone is interested in the plugin Mike alluded to it’s available on our new plugin directory here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....old-posts/

By: Jesse Harris

Jesse Harris — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:16:09 +0000

CAPTCHAs break usability. In the quest to end spam, we cannot and should not ever resort to challenges like CAPTCHAs and “reply if you’re not spam” e-mails. They frustrate users and discourage participation while being no more effective than a good collaborative reporting system like Akismet.

When I run a mail server with Spam Assassin, I end up with a very low rate of false-positives and false-negatives without making users jump through hoops. Google’s spam filtering is even more effective without making users do the hokey pokey in reverse or something equally as inane.

Spam is inconvenient and can take a lot of work to defeat, but CAPTCHAs are a solution worse than the problem.