Comments on: Be bold, but not too bold http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/10/08/be-bold-but-not-too-bold/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/10/08/be-bold-but-not-too-bold/#comment-20330 Xaprb Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:31:56 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2890#comment-20330 Instant spam flood :-)

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/10/08/be-bold-but-not-too-bold/#comment-20318 Xaprb Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:09:02 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2890#comment-20318 I’m disabling the captcha. Let’s see what happens — if it was blocking a lot of spam I’ll get a huge moderation queue real fast :-) A couple users complained about it, so if I don’t need it this will be good.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/10/08/be-bold-but-not-too-bold/#comment-20317 Xaprb Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:06:37 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2890#comment-20317 Akismet + Bad Behaviour isn’t enough for my blog. Besides, after a while I decided that it’s better to moderate comments than to have to remove spam after it gets onto the site. Spammers can generate a lot of noise in a short time, so I force everyone to be moderated until I’ve approved a comment from them before.

I have my admin username changed to something different. It’s no more secure than standard WordPress, but having a slightly smaller surface area helps discourage people who are just looking for the really easy targets.

It must be hard for you to post comments on others’ blogs. Given that you link to an SEO firm, I imagine you get deleted as spam a lot of the time. Akismet thought your comment was spam!

]]> By: Dylan http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/10/08/be-bold-but-not-too-bold/#comment-20316 Dylan Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:11:35 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2890#comment-20316 I run a few WordPress blogs and have the same comment spam issue though found bad behavior along with Akismet kills most of the comment spam, to the extent that I removed the math comment capcha. I also have problems with people trying to login to the system through the admin panel and ‘limit logins’ seems to be catching and blacklisting them.

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