Tag: Comment Spam

  • Akismet 2.0 is a life (and comment) saver

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    Tom Raftery
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    Akismet is the default anti-spam plugin which comes with WordPress and it has saved me from literally hundreds of thousnads of comment spam messages (124,200 last time I looked). A new version (Akismet 2.0) was released the same time as WordPress 2.1’s release so it’s release was kind of drowned out in the hoopla. To…

  • Slow comments in WordPress

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    Tom Raftery
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    In the last couple of weeks commenting on this site was taking longer and longer – sometimes timing out and not letting people comment at all. I was puzzled as to the cause of this and tried turning off various of the plugins I had installed on this blog. Today though I think I have…

  • Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme

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    Tom Raftery
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    I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded: Your Bad Behavior plugin is blocking me, even though my crawler behavior is rather benign. If you can whitelist my crawler (does BB let you?), it looks like…

  • Bad Behaviour updated

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via James comes news that the anti-spam plugin Bad Behaviour has been updated to version 2.0.4 – if you use this plugin (and you should if you have a php based site) then you need to get the most up-to-date version. You can download Bad Behaviour here.

  • How to block comment spam

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    Tom Raftery
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    Like all bloggers, I find comment spam to be a constant annoyance. There are many ways to mitigate the problems it causes however and using the following techniques means that this site is subject to almost no comment spam. Use WordPress’ built in comment spam tools – In WordPress Options -> Discussion, fill in the…

  • A solution for Robert Scoble?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In a recent comment on Shelley Powers’ site Robert Scoble explained one of his reasons for turning comment moderation on his blog, it has nothing to do with comment spam – he said: I am seeing more and more anonymous comments and I have been tracking their IPs and see that one person is showing…

  • Comment spam run last night

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    Tom Raftery
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    Apologies to anyone who subscribed to comments on this site and was emailed the spam comments which hit this site last night. The site was hit by over 80 spams overnight – the first spam run to make it through my anti spam defences in over a year. Curiously, all the spams came from a…

  • Comment spam plugins no longer required!

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    Tom Raftery
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    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…