Spam comments
by Andy on Mar.27, 2006, under Rants
As blogs gain promenance, spammers find an easy way to reach a wider audience: posting spam comments.
Just a note to anyone trying to spam this blog:
It’s powered by wordpress, meaning that I have to approve each comment before it’s seen. therefore I am unlikely to approve any comment offering viagra, porn, or anything else!
(I know that most spammers don’t actually read this blog and the comments are added by a spider, but I’m just getting a bit fed up of these spammers…)
3 comments for this entry:
March 28th, 2006 on 8:35 am
I had a similar problem with spammers. To stop automated comments, try GateKeeper by CSS guru Eric Meyer. It is a simple script that requires a human to answer a question before posting:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/wordpress/wp-gatekeeper.html
To stop trackback spam, I recommend Spam Karma. This traps up to 25 bits of trackback spam a day on my own blog:
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
Using both of these has meant I I haven’t had to manually delete any spam comments for months.
March 28th, 2006 on 10:42 am
we eat spam and ham and jam a lot here at camelot !
My contriubution towards spam .
Stef
March 29th, 2006 on 12:08 pm
I will give those things a look Richard, thanks