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December 16, 2004
Comment Spam
The evil comment spammers are working overtime. My server logs are filled with attempts from the bottom dwellers, and over the weekend I deleted at least 40 pieces of spam per each of my blogs. The folks who do this should be drawn and quartered.
It's bad enough to receive hundreds of pieces email spam; comment spam just makes matters worse and ultimately forces a blogger to disable the comments function. The alternative is for a blacklist of IP addresses and/or having your visitors register before the comment is posted. Though a blacklist may work, asking visitors to register seems a bit much to me, though perhaps helpful in the end. Any thoughts? (Note:Chances are that this post will be comment spammed since I'm leaving the comments function open for responses.)
Addition: For another viewpoint, go read Al's post, Tipping Point? at Fulton Chain.
Cindy
Comments
Some people have put a code that needs to be inputted if you want to comment. It keeps away the spammers.
Brain matter deposited by: paul on December 17, 2004 12:21 PM
40? I'm having to delete about 150 comment spams A DAY! WordPress typcially catches them before they hit the blog, but they wind up in the 'waiting for moderation' area so they still have to be deleted. What a pain in the kazoo.
WordPress so far hasn't come up with a solution but they're all working on it (just like all blog software people are, I'm sure). One suggestion is to make it to where you have to click twice to be able to post a comment. Almost like a preview or something, maybe.
Brain matter deposited by: Kat on December 17, 2004 12:54 PM