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[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] Changed my captcha: You mean I have to put some thought into my responses now On a more serious note I have believed this to be the solution to comment spamming for some time; basic general knowledge questions such as capital cities (re-arranging the phrasing of the question each time), 3-letter anagrams etc.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Review: Top 9 Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugins: By acting as a gatekeeper, it prevents spammers from delivering their junk, and in many cases, from even reading your site in the first place. This helps your site's load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and also contributes to prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

[Holy Shmoly!] More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic: I, too have been plagued by spam (100,000 in one day), and tried to use this stuff. However, I put some of this stuff in my htaccess file (assuming that is where it is supposed to go–it never says in the post) and was blocked from my own site.

[Scatmania] OpenID For WordPress « Scatmania: No, I don’t use any complex arrays (by their definition) and by the OpenID spec, am never likely to, but I’d rather include the bigger, more powerful http_build query for completeness (so that people feel able to use it as http_build_query if they need to).

[Humanized Weblog] Humanized > Weblog: Battling Spam and the Ring of Gyges: There is a huge cost in deciphering (OCRing) images, no matter how simple they are, and I’m guessing most spam bots would not bother with it, especially if it is only for comment systems. Where they would try would be on services such as Gmail, where they can automatically get accounts (with manual setup of a bot to specifically target that web service), and use that to spam people who would not normally receive such and thus pay attention.

[The Goldfish Chronicles] The Goldfish Chronicles » Blog Archive » Roller->WordPress: For spam, I’d suggest grabbing Spam Karma 2 (SK2) instead of using Akismet as Akismet seems to have a fairly high rate of false positives. Until recently SK2 has just worked perfectly for me almost never missing a spam comment - lately there’s been quite a few making it as far as moderation which is annoying but still not actually getting through.

[Holy Shmoly!] How to successfully spam blogs (and how to fight back): Another thing I’ve noticed is a trend with these human spammers, besides searching for “leave a reply”, is using the key term followed by comments or leave comments. The other day, I received a comment on a blog entry about bloggers getting ready for the holiday shopping season because the search query had “shopping + leave a reply”

[PaulStamatiou.com] WordPress Quickie: Ban Malicious Visitors ”” PaulStamatiou.com: I use Spam Karma 2. Since I installed the newest version of Bad Behavior 2, which now also works with the wp-advanced-cache plug-in (small change required in one of the files, everything nicely described in the readme file) Spam Karma only logged 2 spomments anymore in almost 72 hours.

[inner.geek] WordPress Plugin: Smart Unread Comments « inner.geek: As seen on Webfroot and this site, now in WordPress Plugin form! Current Version: 1.3. What it does. Creates a list of posts with comments that haven't been read by the user since their last visit/session. Uses cookies to track users last .... dpress/spam-karma CG-Amazon http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238 Smart Unread Comments http://inner.geek.nz/archives/2005/02/11/wordpress-plugin-smart-unre #26: Pingback by Tannagh - TechGnome's World » Blog Archive » Tannagh ...

[WPThemesPlugin.com] 30 Spam Fighting WordPress Plugins | WPThemesPlugin.com: Akismet Spam Count Display (ASCD) allows the WordPress user to easily choose which type of message (graphical or text-based) to display on the sidebar. If the WordPress user chooses a text-based message, they can type in the text that will be displayed, along with some special characters to allow for display of special items.

[ProBlogger Blog Tips] 10 WordPress Plugins for New Blogs: Now I admit that the plugin’s not going to do you a whole lot of good in your blog’s early days, unless you have a fantastic launch like TwiTip or Freelance Switch had, but it’s worth keeping in mind for the future. (Or you could put affiliate banners in until you can get “real”

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