Posted on Wednesday, 20th December 2006 by Patrick Dorwin
I have been having problems with the spam blockers not allowing regular commenters to leave comments, so I backed off on the spam settings, but now, spammers are getting through, but legitimate commenters are still being blocked.
For a few days I have been checking out other spam blocking options, but they do not play well with the fancy new gizmo that uses AJAX to open comments without reloading the page, so I will probably have to do away with that, because the spam fighting is more important.
UPDATE: New Spam fighting feature
I have added a Captcha type anti spam image verification that will at this time only be visible to unregistered users, so if you register your identity, you will not have to enter the password to post a comment. if you are unregistered, you will now need to enter the password before your post will be allowed. If spam continues to get through, I may have to use this option to registered users as well.
Die Spammers Die!!!
Posted in Home | Comments (8)
December 21st, 2006 at 12:07 am
Go get ‘em, Pat.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:50 am
I’m tryin’ man… But it’s not easy
December 21st, 2006 at 6:21 am
It works real nicely for me (it’s the same thing I use on my blog), but by default it stops all trackbacks/pingbacks. There is an option to allow those again (toot-my-own-horn time, I found the fix in the plugin that this guy used as a base and figured out how to incorporate it into this one).
What I like most about it is you can put in your own words (would anybody besides me use “WTF” as a captcha word?
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December 21st, 2006 at 8:14 am
I still like the “Did You Pass Math?” Word Press plug-in for fighting spammers. It has stopped all spammers over at the CFSW blog.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:52 am
I’ve set the rule in WordPress to only allow comments from users who have at least one previously approved comment. That seems to be working quite well, except that I have to go and mark a bunch of spam for deletion each day.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:51 am
I always had good luck with Spam Karma (it stopped over 60,000 spam comments), but a few months ago, I started getting email from people that said they posted but it never showed up. it turns out that the spam blocking software was seeing some regular commenters as spammers and I had to go in each day and search through over 100 spam posts a day, to try and recover the few legitimate comments. When i backed off on the severity settings, it was still blocking some comments, but letting some spammers through, that’s why I have been tinkering with this for the past week or so.
Hopefully everyone that wants to post, can do so now. If anyone has a problem, I hope you let me know, the only way I know there is a problem is when someone tells me about it.
Steve, I have never had much of a problem with trackback and pingback spam, so I turned that option on. I do like being able to set your own words, and even your own .ttf fonts.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:19 pm
I wish I could get this plugin to work. Could one of you send me your comments.php file to look at?
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 am
Aaron, this is the plug-in that Steve and I are using, just install it and activate it in the CP, there is no need to change your comments.php file unless you want to change the location of where it displays, and if you do change the location, there is a value that you have to change on the plug-in file it’s self.