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Spam comments

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 Responses to “Spam comments”

  1. Richard Smith Says:

    March 28th, 2006 at 8:35 am
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    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.

  2. Smc Says:

    March 28th, 2006 at 10:42 am
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    we eat spam and ham and jam a lot here at camelot !

    My contriubution towards spam .

    Stef

  3. Andy Says:

    March 29th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
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    I will give those things a look Richard, thanks :)