molly.com
Wednesday 24 November 2004
comment spam, dead.
COMMENT SPAM DEAD! Alert the media . . . the fix was easy, but alas may be only temporary. No matter, the respite is worthy of celebration.
Using Nikkiana’s suggestion, I simply changed the name and references to the WordPress comment post file. This stopped the deluge immediately, and I have found some relief at last.
It does appear that this method is only a temporary stopgap, and that stronger anti-comment spam protection will be necessary in time. Be sure to read the related thread as there are some great suggestions there from many, many good folks as to how to manage comment spam more effectively.
Even with this recent attack, what I had to do to try and fight spam with Movable Type was far more complex and time consuming - and most of those spams made it to the site. In the case of WordPress, even though my email inbox was being bombarded with notifcations, at least the ugly bits weren’t ending up exposed in my comments.
Thanks Nikkiana, and thanks everyone for coming to my spam rescue!
Filed under: policies, blogging
Posted by: Molly | 5:15 pm |
November 24th, 2004 at 5:26 pm
I found Kittys Spaminator plugin to work extremely well. It’s caught 100% so far. Then I turned off notifications and I don’t even see it being blocked now. Well worth looking at for a longer term fix and easy to implement being a plugin.
November 24th, 2004 at 6:40 pm
It is only a stopgap - I’ve changed my comment page a couple times, and someone always finds it, by parsing out the comment link. I’ve given some thought to randomizing the comment page name daily….
I’m not going to bother doing any heavy modifications to my local code if Wordpress 1.3 is coming along soon.
November 24th, 2004 at 7:04 pm
With a couple plug-ins, I’ve been able to drop my spam count to only a couple a week. And that’s using MovableType. I use a great plugin called MT-DSBL which checks to see if the poster’s IP address is coming from an open proxy (about 50% of the time). And I also use author name blocking which I hand-rolled since I don’t need any users by the name of mp3 or propecia posting on my site.
November 25th, 2004 at 2:33 pm
I found this hack to work 100% for me: http://wordpress.org/support/3/16384
November 26th, 2004 at 7:31 am
Molly,
Maybe you should ask some PHP geek to adapt Randal Schwartz’s Perl script found in his Keeping robots from stuffing your forms article [WebTechniques #68, Dec 2001]. But wait, this technique seems to be known as CAPTCHA now and there is a PEAR module available for download. Therefore you shouldn’t have any trouble installing it on molly.com (!)
November 28th, 2004 at 11:04 am
molly.com » comment spam, dead.
molly.com » comment spam, dead.: COMMENT SPAM DEAD! Alert the media . . . the fix was easy, but alas may be only temporary. No matter, the respite is worthy of celebration.
I used that “fix” too. Just found a *really* simple stopgap - SPAM Stopgap …
November 28th, 2004 at 6:53 pm
I had a lot of trouble with comment spam on my old MT blog and used MT-Blacklist to solve it. I just moved to WordPress recently, and discovered the fantastic WP Blacklist plugin. It can take advantage of several online databases, including Jay Allen’s prominent one for MT-BLacklist.
I would highly recommend it to you.
November 29th, 2004 at 12:56 pm
As Jonathan Snook rightly points out open proxys are no good. I think theres a WP plugin to stop this, so you might want to look at installing that as well.
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Noting that this thread was started a long time ago, it has to be said that nowadays you really cant get round comment spam (automated) without using plugins. As you can perhaps see from some of the above comments?
The coders writing the bots are too clever to be thrown off by changing file names now. SpamBayes is great, and its open source, great for emails but tricky to setup. Askismet is good, as is Spam Karma.
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