Anti-Spam, version 2

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 - 8:18pm — Corsix

So, after a massive onslaught of spam recently, it's time for some different anti-spam measures:

Disable new comments (to prevent more spam while the problem is addressed)
Do some code hacking so that spam can be deleted alot quicker
Go through every blog entry and determine which comments are spam
Disable the reCAPATCHA module
Install a new anti-spam module like Mollom
Re-enable comments

Currently I've done steps 1-3; 4-6 are being done soon.

Edit: 4-6 now done; let's see how Mollom performs.

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Comments

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 - 11:13am — Iflexion (not verified)

Manual spam - how to detect?

What do you name a "manual crap"?
How can you detect correctly what is a manual spam comment and what is a simple comment from your reader or common visitor?
In my view it's hard to determine and you have a high risk of being mistaken.
Several manually made comments (you can delete or not) aren't worth of your visitors and readers whom can you let down by chance.

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 - 6:48am — ige (not verified)

Part of the problem is dofollow

It seems part of the spam problem is that you allow dofollow links instead of using the nofollow tags which will attract even manual spam (as my site has although I did an anti-spam plugin and most of it went away).

Still get some manual "crap" but it's easy to delete.

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