Comments on: No More Suspect Traffic

By: fambizzari

fambizzari — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:36:46 +0000

When i set up my blog, i never expected that spam would be the result.

It’s exciting and rewarding to see the number of people that read your blog, but then the type of things that are being spammed make me sick.

I know another blogger who simply removed comments altogether, and i think i might follow suit.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:41:34 +0000

You are asking for trouble if you post links back to the referers. It’s sort posting a note saying “please referer spam me”.

By: David George

David George — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:58:37 +0000

I have been plagued by referrer and comment spam on a site I run. ModSecurity is probably a better route than ModRewrite – you can tackle both referrer and comment spam plus it is less resource hungry.

Here is a paper I’ve recently written on what I did.

Combatting Comment and Referrer Spam

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:01:19 +0000

Seth: It looks to me like my installation of WordPress (1.5) has an option not to notify on comments held for moderation. Take a look in Options > Discussion > E-mail me whenever…

By: Geoffrey Sneddon

Geoffrey Sneddon — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:00:02 +0000

I didn’t mean that, I meant as in deleting yet another comment, I had actually just deleted three, but I guess it’s somewhat to do with how long your blog has been online for, and your blog has been online for almost 6 months more than mine, anyhow, just added some extra things to the list of words/URLs/IPs to put comments into the moderation queue… I’ve only got around 2800 entries in the list… :p

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:59:01 +0000

1? Lucky you – I just deleted 18. Standard morning routine, unfortunately