This is since Saturday.
Okay, so two things are happening here.. I have a huge list in my keywords blacklist (meaning they should be sent directly to the spam section) however none of them are being marked as spam, they’re all being sent to the moderation queue (unapproved commenters require their comments to be moderated), and secondly: I’m getting the absolute hell spammed out of me.
I think it’s time to go back to using a Spam Karma or Spam Words, even though they used to chew up legitimate comments.
Maybe i’ll create a WordPress plugin which will automatically ban IP’s of spammers using htaccess (even though they’re mostly zombie computers) and redirect any of their requests to the comment file to a spammer page.
It’s getting annoying because for some reason the blacklist isn’t working as it should be - even though it is set up properly and keywords in the comments are in the blacklist. Anyone got any ideas? :-/
Comments
Peter Akkies (July 12th, 2005, 11:45 pm)
Offtopic: where the hell did you get that admin theme? :O
Peter Akkies (July 13th, 2005, 5:46 am)
Never mind… found it:
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
You should try out all the tools in the Wordpress wiki:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Comment_Spam
Dane Smith (July 13th, 2005, 12:20 pm)
That sucks Chris….Why would someone send Zombie PCs after your blog?
Chris Boulton (July 13th, 2005, 11:46 pm)
Dane, it’s just blog spam - everyone gets it.
Peter, lastnight I installed the Spam Karma plugin for WP 1.5 (The one which will send comments to the spam section not delete them). As luck would totally have it, the spamming has stopped.. for now..
That’s the WP Admin theme too, by the talented Steve Smith. It’s amazing to see that it is all accomplished with CSS..
Dane Smith (July 16th, 2005, 3:09 am)
Wow, i’d get that Admin Theme if my stupid IE6 accepted CSS2…but it doesnt, so yeah, I’d just see the regular thing unless I switched to firefox, which i’m still unwilling to do for now.
Good thing the plugin is working, Chris. My blog got 1 spam message today…Who would guess my blogs URL though :p?
Kates (July 18th, 2005, 2:05 pm)
Did you try using Bad Behaviour plugin?
Chris Boulton (July 18th, 2005, 3:17 pm)
I took a long look at it and weighed up using it over Spam Karma or something similar. To me the thought of user-agent detection to block spambot’s, whilst may work, also has it’s own limitations - especially since user-agents can be easily forged. Also with that, what happens when a newer browser is released or something in someone’s user-agent is detected as being invalid and their blocked?
Anyway, I would use it, but I find Spam Karma has been very effective for me so far, especially since it sends out summary emails and such - which make managing spam easier too, and the fact all comments get caught in the spam queue which I can just clear.
That’s just my opinion though..
dt (July 24th, 2005, 3:34 pm)
hmm why not create php script which creates sessions for people viewing the comments and creates a special hidden form element for that session then when they submit their comment check it?
Im sure that would be hard for the spam bots to forge (hard but not inpossible though…..)