Category: Comment Spam
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Spamming can seriously affect your health!
Via Loic From MozNews.com Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head… Under Russian law, spamming…
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A spam comment makes it through my comment spam defences
Well, it had to happen – a comment spam made it through my defences and onto the site this morning. Having said that, I never thought the site would be spam-free for four whole weeks when I turned off my comment spam plugins. The spam, which was on the site this morning, looked innocuous enough.…
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Comment spam plugins no longer required!
I have written many posts on my battles with WordPress comment spam but all that appears to be coming to a very satisfactory solution. I am now no longer using any comment spam plugins and I have stopped moderating comments on this blog. How did I get to this enviable position? Well, it has been…
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Easy effective control of comment spam
MacManX posted a comment spam strategy on the WordPress Beta discussion site the other day which caught my attention. In the post he said he uses a plugin called WP-HashCash. The main advantage of this plugin is “it requires no maintenance or intervention on my part, and it’s invisible to my readers”. He went on…
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Google fails to implement nofollow on Blogger
FrankP informed me recently that Blogger have updated their comment system so that people without Blogger accounts can leave comments – previously, to do this on a Blogger blog you had to comment anonymously, now it is possible to leave a name and uri. This overhaul of their comment system was long awaited – and…
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Using .htaccess to minimise comment and referrer spam
I have been using my .htaccess file to stop comment and referrer spam on this site and it has been surprisingly successful (so far!). How do I create a .htaccess file capable of greatly reducing comment and referrer spam? Firstly, I use Awstats to analyse visits to my site daily and I use Spam Karma…
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Trackback spam explained
I posted about Trackback Spam previously but it was brought to my attention that I didn’t explain it properly, so I am now going to attempt to rectify that. If you are using a blogging application, like WordPress, there is a facility called Trackback, whereby, when you are making a post in your blog, and…
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Installed Spam karma instead of Spaminator
I had installed Spaminator (version: 1.0rc7) on this site to stop Comment Spam but Spaminator was deleting genuine comments (it deleted 2 of the last 3 genuine comments). The author didn’t respond to this issue – which, in fairness, is as likely to be an issue with my system as the plugin. However, I came…