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[Lifes a Bench] Another new blog engine: So its not been that long since I switched from .Text to dasBlog and I have now moved again, mainly because of the horrendous amount of trackback, comment and referrer spam that wasnt handled very well in dasBlog and was a pain in the backside to clean up - so much so that I ended up leaving a lot of it which led to me getting more referral hits

 [Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place] Blogging and Blog Comments: Freedom to Say... : Blogging and Blog Comments: Freedom to Say Anything or Civil Discourse? August 26, 2005 at 10:01 pm · Filed under Science-Technology-Weblogs Those following my blog posts over an extended period will know that one of their subthemes is blog security. By this I mean, allowing the blogger to have the greatest control possible over the discourse

 [Unknowngenius.com] Dr Dave » Referrer Karma: anti-comment-spam plugin Spam Karma to block spambots before they even reach your comment page (note that you do not need to be running either SK or WP in order to use RK: this feature is entirely optional).

[Floggin.us] floggin » Referrer Karma - A Referral Spam Prevention Tool » Blog ...: If the first test fails then it checks a large list of known referral spamming IPs and URLs they use to spam, if it is matched on that list then they are shown a 403 Forbidden error and given an opportunity to click a link to access the site if they were banned accidentally by the script. This is something no automated tool will do.

[Tomrafteryit.net] Comment spam plugins no longer required! » at Tom Raftery’s IT views: 403 means the user receives a “403: Access Forbidden” error, with a notice informing him that he has been detected as potential Referrer Spam. The user is not barred altogether from viewing the page (only from this referrer): he is provided with a special link on the error page that will redirect him to the page he was originally coming for.

 [Blogged.btvillarin.com] All Narfed Up » Blog Archive » Trying Referrer Karma: I’m keeping a close eye on my Referral Karma logs, in case a friendly domain or .I’ve written a paper covering comment and referrer spam.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Referral Spam, Targeting Spam