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[The Kind Healer] Sheesh (Fun /w Comment Spam): had 30 comments tracked by Akismet as spam - not bad for a semi-known site. But in the past week, thanks to the prior post (and the mentioning of two little words) I’ve been inundated with another 18 comment spams over three days.
[scot hacker's foobar blog] Spam J-Curve: Because Akismet is less likely to have identified these as spammy, the moderation burden falls back onto blog authors. It’s no longer possible to identify spam at a glance - we now have to study each message carefully to ascertain sincerity.
[Revenue Source] Tam Tam’s span filter cuts out crazy amounts of spam comments: The Spam Filter Plugin works by forcing suspicious commenters to go through re-Captcha (which is a painless sign-up process). If they pass the re-Captcha test (which is easy for a human), the comment goes through.* If not, it doesn’t even get submitted to the site, and therefore it doesn’t even show up in your Akismet spam.
[Volk Defense] Secure Those Forums!: I cannot keep up with telling user and webmasters (especially) on how many forums I have come across that have been spammed so badly. And I mean BADLY, you see Viagra Ads everywhere, links to exploited sites and so on.
[Capturing Blog] Wordpress Plugins/Spam Tools: In order for spammers to send email to millions of people, they need millions of email addresses. One way to get these addresses is to automatically search the web, harvesting email addresses from unsuspecting web-sites.
[Mediatricks Business Solutions] Registration Moderation Stops Spammers: Protect your blog today - look at the Registration by Approval fix - now available and already topping 50 downloads this week! Thanks for your support and all your great ideas for the next release version.
[The Broad Brush] Comment Moderation - What’s your plan?: Louis, a blog focused on a very opinionated community, it’s likely that the comments will get heated at times. The question then becomes should the occasional over the top comment be allowed in order to reward the majority of commenters with seeing theirs right away.
[Temporary Overload] Spam?: I just noticed that the site comments have recently become hijacked by spammers. I don’t particularly want to require registration or moderation.
[The Social Networking Weblog] Comment, Don't Spam: When you post irrelevant comments to someone's blog or social networking site, you're spamming. Plain and simple. "When your only comment is a link to your blog, it's not going to make it past the moderation filter. ...
[Favorite {fvrit} Blog] Dealing with comment spammers - there is a way: The automated comment and referral spammers are much harder to deal with as often multiple IP addresses and URL’s are used and it is akin to playing whack-a-mole as they are coming from so many different addresses. With most blog applications, you have several options to keep the spammy comments from appearing on your site.
[Believe. Act. Achieve! - dcr Blogs dot Com] Spam Saturday: “Change Your Life with Porn”: But, spammers wouldn’t keep spamming if it didn’t work. Remember, for most of them, sending spam to millions of eMail addresses doesn’t cost them much, if anything.
[The WWW Observer] Spam Attack!: They’d send you spam and laugh their heads of after doing so. I’ve been getting a hell lot of spam these days, and I’d just want everyone to know about my experiences which ultimately cause exasperation into my life!
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