Comments on: Three steps to stopping blog comment spam http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/ Stay curious! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:51:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cypros http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/#comment-16258 Cypros Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:41:59 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=610#comment-16258 Akismet works well and is free :-) Akismet works well and is free :-)

]]> By: Ben | ASP.NET, SEO http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/#comment-16192 Ben | ASP.NET, SEO Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:37:17 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=610#comment-16192 Askimet reckon that around 85% of all the blog comments that they process are spam. A cruise around "black hat" SEO forums can be quite instructuve - the tenacity and ingenuity these guys put into trying to evade spam defenses is quite staggering. Spam is something of an arms race between site owers and spammers. I Would agree with Richard's comment about the need for moderation. Human spam is on the increase, which does undermine a lot of the automated tools and careful moderation is pretty much your last line of defense. Askimet reckon that around 85% of all the blog comments that they process are spam.

A cruise around “black hat” SEO forums can be quite instructuve – the tenacity and ingenuity these guys put into trying to evade spam defenses is quite staggering.

Spam is something of an arms race between site owers and spammers. I Would agree with Richard’s comment about the need for moderation. Human spam is on the increase, which does undermine a lot of the automated tools and careful moderation is pretty much your last line of defense.

]]> By: AJ @ Web Hosting, UK http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/#comment-15611 AJ @ Web Hosting, UK Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:43:22 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=610#comment-15611 I think the problem is spamming scripts are being written that target prominent blogging/comments systems such as Movable Type. Friends running MT have been targetted, but I'm running an obscure comments system called DotComment, which has had nothing in the way of spam (so far!). Perhaps modifications need to be made to the MT (and other) commenting systems to make them less susceptible to this kind of hacking. Cheers, AJ. I think the problem is spamming scripts are being written that target prominent blogging/comments systems such as Movable Type. Friends running MT have been targetted, but I’m running an obscure comments system called DotComment, which has had nothing in the way of spam (so far!). Perhaps modifications need to be made to the MT (and other) commenting systems to make them less susceptible to this kind of hacking. Cheers, AJ.

]]> By: Tim http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/#comment-15487 Tim Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:57:38 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=610#comment-15487 Hi, Just did a search on reducing spam comments, and this post was #3 result. I am receiving up to a thousand spam comments per day, so I think I will be trying out that gatekeeper you mention above. Thanks for the info. I also like the followup comments by email, and wish more blogs would have it. Hi,
Just did a search on reducing spam comments, and this post was #3 result. I am receiving up to a thousand spam comments per day, so I think I will be trying out that gatekeeper you mention above. Thanks for the info.
I also like the followup comments by email, and wish more blogs would have it.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/10/11/three-steps-to-stopping-blog-comment-spam/#comment-15238 Xaprb Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:15:19 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=610#comment-15238 I moderate comments in that they come to me by email. I read them and if they're inappropriate I delete them. My blog is not a free speech zone. But I don't want to log in or otherwise explicitly authorize each comment. I moderate comments in that they come to me by email. I read them and if they’re inappropriate I delete them. My blog is not a free speech zone. But I don’t want to log in or otherwise explicitly authorize each comment.

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