Comments on: Dear Spammers..

By: ruckus

ruckus — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:09:54 +0000

this reminds me to FIGHT BACK!!!

—> http://postarchives.entensity.net/040105/scam.htm

By: liquidparallax

liquidparallax — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:47:56 +0000

I second Lawliet’s suggestion of the BAD BEHAVIOR plugin. I have gotten from a hundred spam comments/pings a day to zero. It completely blocks these on contact (so no more wasted time). There’s a small chance for some false positives if someone is visiting your site excessively, but it does a heck of a job.

By: Sbronzo di Riace

Sbronzo di Riace — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:10:18 +0000

Hiddy WordPress plugin is a captcha like system to prevent from spam comment.

This plugin will add a simple input text in the comments form, this text will be hidden with a stylesheet and the when a user post a comment it will check for the input and check if it is empty.

So simple, so efficent.

http://hiddy.etechs.it/

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:00:46 +0000

Lennart the main problem is that most spam comments are already in a moderation queue and that I have to manually check them to decided if they are spam or not.

A report this button would not help that much therefor.

By: Lennart

Lennart — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:50:56 +0000

Maybe some kind of moderator system?

Something like this: User’s who are registered for a long time and have proven not te be spammers can get a moderator-status on this site. When the’re logged in and see a spam message, they just have to click on a ‘this-is-spam’ button. All this messages aren’t removed but hidden for public / moved to a special section (depends on the code). Martin can once in a while check this messages and delete them forever.

+ more people, less effort
- a spammer can act like a normal user to obtain a moderator status. But when a moderator spams once, his status can be easily blocked.

By: cc

cc — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:15:52 +0000

Yay! Go Martin!

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:54:32 +0000

Maintain the rage Martin!

By: Mohamed Shafi

Mohamed Shafi — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:48:41 +0000

Go Get them Martin … Hit them where it hurts most for them .. i am with you all the ..although i can do nothing to help you out.
If only GHACKS hadn’t been so famous :)

All the best.

By: D3

D3 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:03:05 +0000

I think the best way to avoid those really annoying bots would to implement captchas, like you stated above.

By: Iain Cheyne

Iain Cheyne — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:20:28 +0000

I got around this with:
a) Akismet (http://akismet.com)
b) Before Akismet, I forced users to register, so that way I only had to moderate their first comment.

By: sda

sda — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:35:39 +0000

good luck with that!1 KILL EM ALL.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:04:04 +0000

No they do not have that Jesse. Even if they would have it would still be possible to determine who is hosting the service by looking at the IP, you just don’t get the name of the administrator / owner and his email.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:40 +0000

Do any of them ever have whois privacy

By: flashback

flashback — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:16:50 +0000

maybe you can use a question capti mod

By: rruben

rruben — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:00:39 +0000

eej Lennart, you have very nice Rolexes on your site but I also have nice products on my website whahaha sorry martin, feel free to delete this comment whahaha
Again sorry for my bad sense of humor, but I already pressed on the submit button :p

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:52:38 +0000

That is right, most captchas are no challenge for the bots. I guess it would be different if I would implement a captcha of the type: Pick the three cats out of those nine animals.

They swap domains, emails and IPs after a few spam attempts and the only solution that I can see is to ban .cn and .info domains altogether and probably some other domains as well from being able to comment at all. But there is not a plugin for this yet.. none that I would knew of..

By: rruben

rruben — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:52:29 +0000

Martin, good article and I hope its also a good way to stop spamming. If you ‘ve done the thinks you have written and you really get less spam, pleas tell us in another article.
I also got spam but by the mail address of my website, its really annoying.
My tip:
And what about hacking the website of those asseholes and deleting whole the server. I think that’s a step better than your tips Martin hehe. Try it, because it really works!! whahaha

By: Ace_NoOne

Ace_NoOne — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:03:10 +0000

@Max: Simple captchas like that can be worked out rather easily by bots.
More info here: Has CAPTCHA Been “Broken”?.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:00:21 +0000

Why don’t you put some sort of captcha on? Like enter a word, or solve a simple math equation (2+2=?). A bot can’t do those, and it will save you a ton of time with the comments.

By: vance

vance — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:23:48 +0000

I also do get spam but spam karma prevents them from being posted as a comment but still every time I open my e-mail, spam karma reports that it blocked 2-4 spam comments.

I don’t know what this creatures achieve in doing so.