Viewing Articles with the tag: Bad-Behavior
Defensio Counts Differently Than I Do
25.Nov.07 | 9 Comments
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 [...]
Windows Live Writer vs. Bad Behavior - Solved!
06.Jun.07 | 4 Comments
Last week I wrote about my battle getting Windows Live Writer Beta 2 to work with the (indispensable) Bad Behavior plugin.
I'm pleased to say that I've found a simple little work-around. Maybe not a permanent solution but for now it will definitely suffice. Easy to do, too!
There's a file included with Bad Behavior, [...]
WLW Beta 2 vs. Bad Behavior
31.May.07 | 9 Comments
In yesterday's post about the new Windows Live Writer Beta 2 I mentioned that I was getting some HTTP 403's when trying to publish. Tonight I decided to dig a little deeper into that.
First, I disabled mod_security on my web server. No difference.
Second, I disabled the Bad Behavior plugin that is a key [...]
Another Tool in the Blog Anti-Spam Toolkit
18.Mar.07 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Blog Spam reaching new levels
20.May.06 | 7 Comments
Seems something new started up last week and as a result the amount of spam comments and trackback spam that folks are receiving is sky-rocketing. In fact we had to sticky a generic post over at the WordPress.org support forums to help minimize the number of forum posts all on the same topic. [...]
