Targeting Spam > Comment Spam Protection Has Stopped Legit Comments
[Dan Gillmor: Blog] Apparently my spam protection captcha isn’t working right. Apologies to those who’ve tried posting and failed.
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[OurDaily.info] American issues projects comment spam queue: My apologies if this happens but there are some keywords that push it into the spam folder. One last note, we will not tolerate comments that disparage people based on age, sex, handicap, race, color, .
[The Equity Kicker] Apologies for comment spam problems: When I updated the look and feel of The Equity Kicker a couple of months ago I also updated the CAPTCHA I use to keep out comment spam. That has turned out to be a retrograde step, and I am suffering quite badly at the moment.
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[Collections] WordPress: Updatin the bloggin: I think the best spam solution really is a simple captcha or “type: I am human” validation. Low barrier for the end user, low maintenance for the admin.
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[copyrighteous] PyBlosxom and Comment Spam: Historically, my blogspam protection has been to use a simple weakCAPTCHA and to have my blog software email me each time a comment issuccessfully submitted so that I can (with a built-in macro in mutt)delete each spam comment that slips in. This has worked well for thelast couple years.
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[nearlylegal] Comment spam: There is a torrent of comment spam posting going on and it is hitting my server heavily at the moment. None of it gets through, as I use Askimet for Wordpress, but each attempted spam comment means a server hit and they are coming in .
[Winter's Haven] Fighting Comment Spam: I had been using Akismet to filter out spam comments, but it seems to produce too many false positives. My apologies if you posted a comment which got thrown out by the spam filter.
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[Frank La Vigne] Attack of the Comment Spammers: It didn't take the comment spammers long to notice that I've re-enabled comments on this blog. They do work quite efficiently and their work ethic is quite impressive.
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[JOLLYBLOGGER] Blog Updates: I don't like doing this as a I think commenting ought to be as easy as possible, but the spam is just out of control - apologies for the inconvenience to the overwhelming majority of you who play by the rules.
[Secrets From Within] Akismet False Positive: One of the things that I am sure I can comment for all bloggers is the comment spam is annoying as can be. I use to use a captcha where it required readers to enter a series of numbers and letters into a box, thus proving that you are a .
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