Comments on: easy wordpress anti-spam

By: fora

fora — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:26:26 +0000

Nice article, you already have a god anti spam bot plugin installed so i guess you don’t have nearly as much trouble with that as you used to. I personly think that math sums like i’ve seen before are the best method right now, or some random generating number/word captcha

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:29:08 +0000

As I see this, it’s all about anything individual that keeps spammers away. Almost all spambots just crawl the web for common software like wordpress, phpbb or mediawiki and try to add their links there (probably to increase their google ranking?).
So e.g. in my blog I just noted in natural language that you have to type nospam@nospam.org into the email-field and changed the code to check for that. The modification involved only 2 lines of code, but since then I never had any spam in opposite to about 2-3 / day before, and surely no spammer will visit my site himself an modify a bot for a single blog :)

cu,

Jan

By: kees

kees — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:28:26 +0000

Yeah, I’m kind of expecting that. :) They’ve always got new tricks. Keeps it interesting, I guess. :P

By: John

John — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:13:17 +0000

you can expect new spammers to try your blog - I've been sending redirects to large files for quite a while, and usually spammers pick up on the slowdown of their botnet after about ten attempts or so. They stop trying your weblog, but new spammers are appearing all the time..