I Have Resorted To Checking Comment Content (For Spam)

Posted November 28, 2006 at 9:08 AM by Ben Nadel

It seems I have taken one step forward, two steps back when it comes to blocking blog comment spamming. Stuff just keeps getting through. Granted, I have not implements some of the ideas that I wanted to rip from Dinowitz, but it bugs me none the less. I have finally resorted to actually checking the content of the comment. Right now, I am not allowing anyone to post link tags <A>. Ugggg. This shouldn't be an issue for the most part as most people don't post link tags to my blog (other than spammers). Hopefully this is only temporary before I can find a better solution.




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Rick O
Nov 28, 2006 at 11:55 AM // reply »
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Not that you need one more thing to do, but if you want a bulletproof comment spam solution you may consider porting SpamKarma to your blog system. It uses an entire system of weights and measures to make a best-guess to determine of a comment is spam or not. In the year that I've been using it, only 3 comment spams have gotten through, and that was only in the hour or so I had it turned off to upgrade my copy of WordPress. (And I believe the identity id in my comments table is up to 4000+, even though I only have ~100 approved comments on my entire blog, if that shows you how good it is.)

http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

It's really the one thing that keeps me from running BlogCFC on my site. If BlogCFC had SpamKarma, I'd upgrade in a heartbeat.

-R


Ben Nadel
Nov 28, 2006 at 11:57 AM // reply »
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Rick,

Thanks, I will check it out. Thanks for the link.


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