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December 11th, 2004I’m quickly tiring of comment spam. While only a few are actually being posted due to minimal anti-spam measures being taken, having to delete them from their holding area is something I don’t want to spend time doing.
Though I probably wouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings by eliminating comments, that would be admitting defeat by spammers. So I scoured the many options to deflect the clever spammers and have implemented Jeff Barr’s simple approach of adding an additional validation for comments in WordPress.
This is a fairly easy coding process that has the advantage of preventing spam comments rather than holding them in a que for later approval or deletion. It also minimizes any inconvenience for legitimate commenters. It can also be later adapted to defeat spam bot scripts designed to overcome it.
Plus, it weeds out knuckleheads who can’t figure out my first name.
So far, so good. I’ll keep you posted.
December 11th, 2004 at 8:39 pm
Anti-spam test in progress.
December 12th, 2004 at 3:39 am
I used to have major comment spam problems when I used Movable Type. WordPress wasn’t much better. My hosting provider at the time did me a favor by banning MT installation; it forced me to start using TextPattern. Problem solved. In a year of using TP, not one comment spam. I don’t need TypeKey, I don’t need validation or anything else. For what it’s worth from a (thankfully former) Okie to another …
December 12th, 2004 at 10:03 am
TextPattern seems to be a nicely evolving CMS – much improved since I last checked.
Having started with WordPress’ little brother, B2, I’ve become comfortable with the software. I’m stubborn enough to keep pluggin’ away a while longer with it. But TextPattern looks to be something I might consider in the future. Thanks for the heads up.
December 13th, 2004 at 8:04 pm
Mike -
Have you tried the Spam StopGap plugin yet? I just dropped it in my wp-content/plugins folder, activated it and not a single porn, poker, or advertising comment so far. works great and it’s worth a try.
There are lots of good WordPress Spam solutions so I wouldn’t give up just yet…
December 14th, 2004 at 1:41 am
Did see that spam plug-in, but wanted to try a non-Java approach to the problem. I may end up with that though, if validation fails.
And thanks for the link to the site of plug-ins. There’s a few I haven’t seen.