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Ipstenu on "Auto-block IPs with more than X spam comments."

Ipstenu — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:37:05 +0000

Actually if you have Akismet installed, Marking a post as spam sends a message BACK to the servers to teach it what spam is.

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/do-not-delete-comment-spam-mark-spam-as-spam/

Use Akismet, mark as spam, it already does that :)

bitacre on "Auto-block IPs with more than X spam comments."

bitacre — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:10:16 +0000

Right now marking a comment as spam doesn't do anything other than hide it. All that spam comment data is saved, and there is already a blacklist feature, so it would be easy to implement an option to automatically add an IP to the blacklist when it posts more than X number of comments marked as spam.

I already wrote a plugin (WP-Blacklister) which sorts the spam comment data by worst offenders if people want this feature now, but I think it's something that should be added to the default version. Lots of us have thousands of spam comments just sitting in our databases, might as well use that information.

planetphillip on "Truncate spam display to 5 lines"

planetphillip — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:48:39 +0000

Some of the comments in the spam section are very, very long.

Generally, you only need to see the first few lines to double check it's a spam comment.

It would be very useful if WP truncated the display to a few lines, with the option of seeing the whole comment if necessary.

There would be a lot less scrolling if this were implemented.

qdinar on "captcha api, so that forum plugin can use captcha plugin and ..."

qdinar — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:43:53 +0000

captcha api, so that forum plugin can use captcha plugin and registration, commenting use same captcha plugin through it and also plugins like contact, voting also can use same captcha plugin.

Roy on "Akismet expanded"

Roy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:15 +0000

The order of the posts is a bit weird!
In any case, it makes sense that it would take a big server load to check the IP of every visitor, but I wonder, these spambots try to hammer spam in each and every available post. Isn't that about the same?

Or else, how does Bad Behavior do what it does? Could my request be better be addressed to the authors of that plugin perhaps?

Techie on "Akismet expanded"

Techie — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:48:15 +0000

But that would generate a lot of server load. When every visitor starts loading the site Akismet would have to look through an entire database of known IPs (that would be huge) to stop the page load or to let it through. At least for spammers this happens after a comment is submitted, not for every page load.

Roy on "Akismet expanded"

Roy — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:51:53 +0000

The problem is that it are different referrers and mostly even different IPs all the time, so my htaccess is getting HUGE. If these IPs would be in the Akismet database just like IPs of spammers, Akismet could be a very effective tool against referrer spam too I think.

eitanc on "Please add an email alert for spam comments"

eitanc — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:55:43 +0000

I first searched for a plugin for this and didn't find any. Only then I posted here.
I really don't care how this will be solved - as a plugin or as part of wp, but since there is no plugin, I turned to wp.

Techie on "Akismet expanded"

Techie — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:45:09 +0000

So are you just blocking the spammers by IP so they don't generate server load for you?

Techie on "Please add an email alert for spam comments"

Techie — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:43:27 +0000

I can see your reasoning but I personally don't think it would be a good idea. Maybe a plugin could be made to do that.