Under siege…
Posted by Fyse on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
I feel like I’ve been under attack for the past hour, with a positive deluge of comment spam. Coming at the rate of several each minute, I’ve barely been able to delete them faster than they’ve arrived. I’d been getting occasional problems, but never enough to quite get round to installing any counter measures. Tonight certainly booted me into action. After a quick look at the options, I went for the easily installed Bad Behavior. (It hurt me to type that spelling, even though it is the actual name.) I’ve seen some other sites using random numbers as pictures, which have to be typed in to verify a human rather than a script, but they were far more complicated to install. I’ll see how I get on with this one first.
There is a very remote possibility that some of you virtuous and honest commentors will be blocked by the software, in which case you’ll get an error page. If this happens, drop me an email and I’ll try to sort it out.
I downloaded the new and improved Spam-Karma 2.0 and it is blocking everything perfectly. Google it and try it out (I assume you’re using WordPress).
Ah, you’re not on the blogger system anymore. I just clicked something to get the wavy letter verification thing going for my comments.
Caleb - ‘Bad Behavior’ is not doing a good job at all, so I’ll have to investigate the alternatives. So far I have a compromise solution, using Wordpress to moderate any commments containg a link. Leaves me with several hundred to delete regularly, but it’s better than them appearing on the site.
Oz - Yeah, I’ve been using Wordpress for a while now. It kicks arse in so many ways, but utilising new features is certainly more complicated than with Blogger. So much more versatile, though.