Anyone who’s blogged likely knows about blog spam. It’s the scourge of the blogosphere — automated programs that search out blogs and auto-submit “ads” as comments — usually for gambling, erectile dysfunction drugs and porn. It forces responsible bloggers to moderate all comments.
Fortunately, Wordpress’ Akismet plug-in does a good job of detecting spam, but for some reason, it considers comments from my email (using my @bigblueball.com address) as spam! A quick search on the Wordpress forums shows that, yes, Akismet may have some false positives, but if you flag it as “not spam” enough times, Akismet supposedly learns to stop marking your comments as spam. So far, we’ve tried it with over four comments, but Akismet is still marking my comments as spam. Any suggestions?
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October 8th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Here you go … http://www.leobridlefilms.co.uk/video/firstpost-flash.html
October 8th, 2006 at 10:00 am
it’s even more fun when you’re not using a well-established CMS like Wordpress, and instead you’re using your own custom-written code. comment spam becomes a nightmare then. I’ve slowly adapted to it over time, but it’s still a problem.
October 8th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Thanks Sarah, I’ve turned that video into a new post.
@Tigerblade — I can imagine. One thing you might try to slow them down is renaming the page that processes the forum occasionally. You’d have to tweak your code, but it should prevent the spambots from posting, at least until they discover the change.