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I’ve noticed something new with comments on this blog recently. It is a little bit sneaker than the normal approach, See, typically most spammers want to get their links on your blog, and they’ll certainly be sure to use the commenter’s URL field as target #1: The link there gets linked to their name. Free PR juice. I’ve been experimenting with the latest Anti-Spam WordPress plugin: Defensio. In general, it seems to work pretty well, but I have noticed some oddities. Honestly, it really does work well. At first it didn’t seem to be learning very quickly — even marked one of my own comments as spam! Ouch, that hurt a Blog spam is a bummer, isn’t it? So much of it is automated and shows up as Trackbacks or Pingbacks. Without using decent tools, a blogger can easily find themself spending way too much time chasing this stuff around. That causes folks to sometimes take extreme measures like forcing commenter registration  March 18th, 2007 |  Tags: akismet, antispam, Bad-Behavior, blog, co.mments, spam, Spam-Karma, WordPress |  3 comments An interesting side-effect of spending so much time hanging out at the WordPress support forums is that I see a lot of plugins announced or mentioned. And if they catch my eye (“oooh, shiny!”) I install them. As a result, I have quite a pile of plugins running in spite of my initial Continue reading Favorite WordPress Plugins (well, for this week at any rate) |
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Knowing When to Close ‘em
A bit over a month ago, I mentioned Comment Timeout, a WordPress plugin that can be very helpful in the ongoing battle against blog spam. It does some slick stuff and even has integration with Bad Behavior, another great weapon in the same battle.
The option to automatically block comments with bbcode in them is
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