Comments on: More comment spam techniques

By: Cero Spam

Cero Spam — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:28:42 +0000

Hi,
we are testing a new free form-protection service (http://www.cerospam.com.ar), for blogs and for any kind of web site. It is easy to setup each form with this system, and it is very useful for protecting comment forms from spammers.
It is based on captcha method. Until now it seems to work fine. No matter what kind of blog software you are using, this is not a plugin.
Please, test it and do not hesitate to send us your comments!
Thank you.

By: Nataly

Nataly — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:38:08 +0000

I use Spam Karma… And i’m satisfied with it. But really it’s very funny to read spam-comments sometimes :).

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:01:52 +0000

OK, I’m biased because I know Matt, but his Akismet plugin works wonderfully. All the comments are left in your database, but marked as spam so you don’t have to worry about losing anything valuable.

By: Andreas Naesager

Andreas Naesager — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:20:43 +0000

Maybe an idea..

When a user/spambot is posting a comment, show the comment page with the just submitted comment, but add a red kind-of-alert box with some text and a link for submitting it fo’ real?

I’m not in the spambot nor blog blogging market, so I’m unsure as of how extensive these spambots are.. But might be an idea..

By: sil

sil — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:10:40 +0000

Corey: I don’t want comments moderated. There should be no impediment to commenting, and moderation of new commenters is an impediment.

By: MrCorey

MrCorey — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:01:12 +0000

Looks like my comment wasn’t moderated, so you have that turned off. I left that part on. Under Options->discussion, I kept the check marks in the part where it required commenter to fill out a name and email [b]as well as[/b] “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”. Maybe this will help.

By: MrCorey

MrCorey — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:56:35 +0000

I’ve had pretty good luck with the built in moderation. If a person is a first-time poster (like me, right now), then they have to be “allowed” by me to comment. It seems to work. I haven’t had anything worse than a certain spammer in South Africa (working with their ISP, we’ll see…) trying with various email addresses to get in, but I moderate every new commenter.

By: sil

sil — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:28:09 +0000

I’m not 100% happy with its non Free nature, though.

By: sil

sil — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:25:53 +0000

SK2 does look good. I shall install.

By: Ade

Ade — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:56:35 +0000

Spam Karma (2) is very, very good. I guess it shouldnt be the only thing you use tho, hence the suggestion of mod_security etc but yes - install SK2 right now, and then look into mod security