Comment Spam: More Than A Minor Annoyance
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Although I do have the absolutely wonderful and I-can’t live-without-it Askimet plugin installed here, I still look through the messages it catches every few days. What’s worse than having to waste time even looking at them is trying to ignore what’s in them. Various prescription drugs (I’m keeping things G-rated over here), and links to what I will leave as explicit videos litter the Askimet Spam page litter my screen every time I look at it.
Eventually, someone is going to (or I will) say enough is enough, and just get rid of comments once and for all. We all hate weeding through spam emails (which affect a much greater majority of people than comment spam does), so why should we feel the smame about comments?
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Paul
January 16th, 2007
at 10:51am
Hi, Michael.
By banning unregistered commenters (which seems reasonable – as a matter of courtesy, people ought to say who they are if they are going to post their two penn’orth) and then blocking spam bots (as I outlined in my fix over on wordpress.org), I’ve (I hope) prevented spam comments on my wordpress blog (which isn’t the one I link to above).
Sorry for all the parentheses – sometimes English is just too linear, or insufficiently parallel. On blogger (the one I link to above), comment verification works nicely.
Also, I couldn’t get akismet to work because the code I got from wordpress.com didn’t verify. >:(
Michael
January 16th, 2007
at 7:19pm
I tried requiring commentors to be logged in a while ago (back in the dark beginnings of my blog), but at some point I figured that I would get absolutely no comments if I did that, and just left it with comment moderation. Now I use Askimet, and I don’t remember seeing a single spam comment being let through.
morganusvitus
April 4th, 2007
at 9:19am
The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)