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[Japan Probe » Japanese TV] I am sorry that it had to come to this, but I am now getting over 200 spam comments a day, which makes it time consuming to check the logs in Spam Karma to make sure that actual comments are not being marked as spam [it happens occasionally]. So please, go ahead and register: it only takes a minute.

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[Karol Zielinski Blog» All kind of stuff around the web - Karol Zielinski Blog] What should (or shouldn't) I do to stop spam on my blog?: None of the anti-spam mechanism are good enough, none of them will give you 100% guarantee of success. There is only one way for 100% protection from spammers: turn off your website or blog.

[Jordan Independent - News, sports, politics, blogs and forums for Jordan, Minnesota • (952) 492-2224] We're trying to fight SPAM | Jordan Independent: Actually click throughs encourage spammers, I doubt they're coming back to your little corner to see if anyone responds, rather they're looking at their analytics for the links. Why on earth do you allow the links to remain?

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[Snook.ca] The Death of Comments - Snook.ca: Like yourself I've managed to escape a lot of spam with my own custom spam filter (based on a score using 'bad' words, the amount of URLs in a comment, etc) and for the most part it's effective. This past week though I've been hit by 10 or so spam comments a day but they don't contain anything blockable - it's getting to the point where if I add more filters I'm going to be alienating genuine commenters.

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[Gary Andrews] Demya - a spam tin with a different label is still spam » Gary Andrews: Spam comments, as any regular blogger and forum user will tell you, are a right royal pain in the arse. While it's a way of life on teh interweb, it doesn't make them any less irritating to delete, especially if you get hit by a plethora of spam comments, .

[Lorelle on WordPress] Fighting Registration Spam in WordPress « Lorelle on WordPress: I think the idea behind registration spam is to try and either appear on the Authors page or hope that the blog admin was silly enough to give new users posting rights by default. At any rate, I agree that some kind of moderation or spam filtering needs to get applied to user logins.

[as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge] More comment spam techniques | as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge: Since the earlier comments are legitimate, it’s quoting legitimate text and therefore no spamtrap in the world will catch it. I could hack WP to check previous comments for the text they’re posting, but that’s easily get-around-able by changing the comment spammer script to replace “o”

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[ProBlogger Blog Tips] ProBlogger.com is Live! JOIN with 1200+ Bloggers to Improve Your Blog: Discourage Spammers - while I fully expect members will successfully promote their blogs in this community - that’s not what it’s really about and I hope that putting a fee on it will keep spammers and self promoters a little more at bay. Feel free to tell us about your blog - but do it appropriately and as a good citizen of the forum.

[AriWriter] 3 Tips to Keep Me Commenting on Your Blog ”” AriWriter: Now you will say that that is not too bad, but in German law spamming (as in sending commercial email without the receiver wanting them) is illegal. Blogs that have ads on them are considered commercial in that respect so there were some German blogs getting sued for that behavior.

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