Comments on: How to stop Wordpress Blog Comment Spam http://www.tomrafteryit.net/how-to-stop-wordpress-blog-comment-spam/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:44:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Tom http://www.tomrafteryit.net/how-to-stop-wordpress-blog-comment-spam/#comment-629 Tom Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:36:47 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/?p=107#comment-629 Hi Gilbert, things have moved on a bit a bit since I posted this post. I upgraded the blog to WordPress 1.5 and I am now only using <a href="http://www.tomrafteryit.net/htaccess.txt">my .htaccess file</a> and my Blacklist to stop spam and it appears now to be working very well. My blacklist is very short - I can send it to you, if you wish. I have also installed <a href="http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/">Referrer Karma</a> to minimise referrer spam and I think this is helping block a lot of the comment spammers as well. Hi Gilbert, things have moved on a bit a bit since I posted this post.

I upgraded the blog to WordPress 1.5 and I am now only using my .htaccess file and my Blacklist to stop spam and it appears now to be working very well. My blacklist is very short - I can send it to you, if you wish.

I have also installed Referrer Karma to minimise referrer spam and I think this is helping block a lot of the comment spammers as well.

]]> By: Gilbert http://www.tomrafteryit.net/how-to-stop-wordpress-blog-comment-spam/#comment-628 Gilbert Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:01:16 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/?p=107#comment-628 Hi Tom, I had nearly the same problems wit Spamming as you mentioned. I first did put in a secret hidden input field in the input mask of the comment form and only let in comments that came from this form, but now it seems its not working anymore. My blacklist has nearly 200 words in it and anyway I get spam comments... I will try the solution mentioned by you. Thanks for the info... Regards from switzerland Gilbert Hi Tom,
I had nearly the same problems wit Spamming as you mentioned. I first did put in a secret hidden input field in the input mask of the comment form and only let in comments that came from this form, but now it seems its not working anymore. My blacklist has nearly 200 words in it and anyway I get spam comments…
I will try the solution mentioned by you. Thanks for the info…
Regards from switzerland
Gilbert

]]> By: Gavin http://www.tomrafteryit.net/how-to-stop-wordpress-blog-comment-spam/#comment-313 Gavin Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:50:49 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/?p=107#comment-313 I have found Farook's Blacklist to be the best - even better than MT blacklist. Some still get through but the vast majority are dealt with - I used to get up to 1000 comment spam per day. Now I get maybe 10. The errors you are experiencing are something i came across. It might be because you checked the box saying "Harvest information from deleted comments to add to blacklist" This had the effect of blocking large numbers of my regular commenters. I simply deleted the blacklist in SQL and started again. Now everything works great - and I import from Jay Allen regularly. I have found Farook’s Blacklist to be the best - even better than MT blacklist. Some still get through but the vast majority are dealt with - I used to get up to 1000 comment spam per day. Now I get maybe 10.

The errors you are experiencing are something i came across. It might be because you checked the box saying
“Harvest information from deleted comments to add to blacklist”
This had the effect of blocking large numbers of my regular commenters. I simply deleted the blacklist in SQL and started again. Now everything works great - and I import from Jay Allen regularly.

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