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Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Bill Wynne — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:36:33 -0000

I also meant to share my favorite plugin for spam removal. It is GASP and requires the click of a box to get submitted. Askimet is not recommended since it will put good comments into the spam folder.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Bill Wynne — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:34:22 -0000

Spam is a real problem, but may I say that there is a good spam and a bad spam. Bad spam can actually decrease your SEO efforts for your site, whereas good spam can help rank your site. What do I mean by good spam? This is someone who is commenting for a backlink but is taking time to read the post and share something intelligent. This does show interaction on your site, which is a social signal to the Panda. What do you think?

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Sean — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:16:41 -0000

Every blog must have some moderation surely - how else can you prevent people posting offensive comments?

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Jason — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:00:33 -0000

I get lots of email spam which I don't bother reading - the whole lot is deleted. What I don't understand is why do spammers persist in an exercise that is basically a waste of everyone's time? Surely the majority of people do as I do, so I don't see how it can be a productive exercise.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Oscar — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:31:22 -0000

I won't do the Disabling comments completely suggestion. How can you keep a lively discussion of you will disable the comments?

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Cindy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:12:07 -0000

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Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Cindy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:12:07 -0000

Best info on Wordpress. i learned some of the Wordpress Spam Fighting Features, it is excellent. it's very useful for spaming ......thxxx for information.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Fera — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:19:01 -0000

Hi
I have a free blogs hosting site Blogs Pages
and I get a flood attacks ,is there any plugin to prevent flood spam ?

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Fera — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:19:01 -0000

Hi
I have a free blogs hosting site Blogs Pages
and I get a flood attacks ,is there any plugin to prevent flood spam ?

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

John — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:08:05 -0000

I have the "old commenters" box checked in my options, but one commenter frequently ends up in my spam and moderation queue anyway.

My interpretation is that it means that all first-time commenters get moderated, but second/fifth/twentyfifth time commenters can still get moderated.

I'd like a way to truly pre-approve an email address so that this doesn't happen to my readers.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

John — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:08:05 -0000

I have the "old commenters" box checked in my options, but one commenter frequently ends up in my spam and moderation queue anyway.

My interpretation is that it means that all first-time commenters get moderated, but second/fifth/twentyfifth time commenters can still get moderated.

I'd like a way to truly pre-approve an email address so that this doesn't happen to my readers.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Matt Ellsworth — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:17:06 -0000

we get about 100 spam comments per day on this blog alone. We have enabled a honeypot plugin (projecthoneypot.org) as well as we keep a blacklist of ips - and send them to a redirect when they try to access any site we run - that however is made by hand and not automated unfortunately.

We of course use askimet which catches a bunch - but its still annoying.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Matt — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:17:06 -0000

We of course use askimet which catches a bunch - but its still annoying.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Gadgets — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:57:38 -0000

I base my moderation decisions on Akismet's "suggestions" :D. I find it more easy to use that other solutions. And it worked really nice until now. Hope it will not disappoint me.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Gadgets — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:57:38 -0000

I base my moderation decisions on Akismet's "suggestions" :D. I find it more easy to use that other solutions. And it worked really nice until now. Hope it will not disappoint me.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Armen — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:18:56 -0000

Nice, brief, but useful post. I think I'll head over and try out recaptcha to help cut down the work Akismet has to do.

Thanks!

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Armen — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:18:56 -0000

Nice, brief, but useful post. I think I'll head over and try out recaptcha to help cut down the work Akismet has to do.

Thanks!

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Diana13 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:38 -0000

Thanks for visiting my blog.
My blog is still very young, but after a few spam, I've installed today akismet, and it caught allready 23 spam comments.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Diana13 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:56:38 -0000

Thanks for visiting my blog.
My blog is still very young, but after a few spam, I've installed today akismet, and it caught allready 23 spam comments.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Madhur Kapoor — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:33:28 -0000

I use Akismet but i dont think it is much effective . Will have to try some other alternative along with it .

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

joost — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:31:42 -0000

We use Akismet and the “Pre-approve comments from old commenters”, but that last one is giving us some problems now :( The other day somebody posted a 'legitimate' comment. I approved it and the next day this same person bombarded several posts with spam comments. Because he/she was an old commenter it got through....
Luckily it was there only a few hours because I pulled the authorization when I saw the spam, but it was still bl**dy annoying.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Madhur Kapoor — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:33:28 -0000

I use Akismet but i dont think it is much effective . Will have to try some other alternative along with it .

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

joost — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:31:42 -0000

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Steven Snell — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:51:59 -0000

I rely on Akismet. It catches a ton of spam comments and then I delete whatever spam gets through. I have no idea how many legit comments get deleted by Akismet because I don't have time to go through it. I've never had anyone tell me they left a comment that got deleted.

Re: How To Beat WordPress Spam

Simon — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:52:27 -0000

My blog had almost no spam for most of its life, then all of a sudden the spam has gone through the roof. 833 spam comments, and almost all of them in the last few weeks. There is one type that was getting through akismet and was making it onto the blog until I enabled moderation for all posts with links in them. That particular spam comes in the form of a link to a random forum, a different forum each time, I assume the forums have nothing to do with it, and uses a random simple gmail address. i.e. john@gmail.com. It is always for the same post, a post I did over 2 months ago. It's not too annoying now that I have moderation enabled. But it makes you wonder what drives the idiots who make what is blatantly just annoyance factor spam. Maybe I upset someone?