Anyone else getting a flood of blog comment spam recently?
Wordpress is awesome enough to catch all of it as probably spam and put it into a moderation queue for me, but I still had 80+ comments to delete in the past week… and I have to be careful not to delete a non-spam comment… not a good situation.
So I looked into plug-ins for Wordpress and found a few, but the one I liked the most is called bad behavior. It’s built as a very modular component, to be shared into many php applications (which is good for me). Also, I like that it looks at the HTTP headers and can block all bot access (which is really hot).
I have just set it up and have yet to determine if it’s effective or if it’s killing too much access (false positives), but from what I can tell – it’s going to be great!
Update: I have found that a good deal of spam was getting past “bad behavior” – perhaps the bots are geting more advanced… but I have added the plugin wp-gatekeeper and it looks like it will work for me.
yo dude.. here’s a test for your comments.
your “no comments” link is what has to be used to post a comment.. it should probably say something to the effect of “post a comment”
does that make sense?
Well, I was still getting spam comments (maybe it’s a more advanced bot commenting)… so I have implemented wp-gatekeeper to put in a random simple verification question, which will be required to post… a slightly less sophisiticated and modular approach, but should be more effective… we will soon see.
in my blog comments are deactivated , you must registered
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/ )
The best way to stop spam would be to spend some time in moderating the comments persoanlly rather than relying on any captchas. You can go to the other extreme of not allowing anyone to comment – but then the whole essence of sharing information is lost. At least Yahoo and MSN rewards the commentators with relevant backlinks, so that is a reward which many spammers like to go for.
There is truth to that statement… but there are better things to do with my time… especially since there are time when the bots really get going when I had hundreds of spam comments to remove, and 1 or 2 interspersed “valid” comments to not delete… not that it’s the end of the world, but it should not be mandatory effort – and shouldn’t have to be done daily. (all, in my opinion) Since there are good tools to reduce the amount of spam with minimal inconvenience to the commentors… i use it.