Spam, spam and spam
I’ve been hit by a large amount of blog spam lately. To my suprise I’ve notice that there is spam robots searching the net for blogs to start spaming the comments with adverts to online casinos. The good thing is that WordPress has a spam filter, the problem is that it does remove the comment. It saves it and doesn’t show it. The problem is that everytime someone leaves a comment I get a mail. I get flushed with emails from my site.
It would be great if someone writes a comment and uses a spam word they would get notified that the message was not saved and they need to retype their comment instead this way that all messages are saved but only not shown.
Do you have the same problem? How do you cope with it? I am thinking about disable the access for the IP’s that are spaming me on server level. Is there any other way?
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October 30th, 2004 at 4:58 pm
This seems to be a common problem when using a popular blog package like WordPress or Movable Type. You could try renaming the comment CGI, or force visitors to preview their comments before posting.
I don’t have this problem, since I wrote my own little blog.
I only get the occasional nutcase who likes the idea of being anonymously rude.
February 13th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Three rules for the spam game:
1) you can not win.
2) you can not draw.
3) you can not leave the play.
Greetings,
Antonio, from Malaga (Spain)