Lotsa spam
In the last 2 months or so, I started getting lots of spam as blog comments. I don’t know why now, so I’m going to assume it’s because my blog is becoming a must-read amongst spammers.
I used to have the blog open for all comments, so anyone could comment and it would automatically show up on the site. Since I get emailed whenever there’s a comment, I could then delete the “comment” when someone suggests that my readers increase the size of their penises.
Deleting spam after the fact is okay by me, as I check email regularly enough. The problem is that everyone who had already posted their comments to the particular entry being spammed, gets spammed as well. And that’s not cool.
I also tried banning certain IP addresses, but it got boring very quickly.
Now I’m enabling the comment approval thingy. A comment won’t make it to the site unless I explicitely approve it. I still get lots of spam, but at least you don’t, well, at least not from posting here.
Luke said,
July 19, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
I use akismet plugin. It catches the most notorious penis enlargement, and mortgage spam. Other than that, I set up my wordpress to hold comments from unknown emails for approval.
Once you have one good comment in, you can post normally. If you use certain keywords, URL’s and IP numbers that happen to be on my blacklist your comment will be held for moderation just the same.
If something slips through, I tweak my blacklist.