Member
It seems that a great deal of comment spam comes from robots that seem to be hitting the wp-comments.php file without ever going to the site itself.
I think it would be good to add nonces to the submission process so that you would have to actually submit from the comment form. This should eliminate the robotic spam.
Member
-1 But good idea. For performance purposes you want to serve identical HTML to most visitors (this WP-Super-Cache). Plus the nonces would be no problem to work around for the next wave of spambots.
Member
@mrclay
I can see the performance issue being a problem. I wonder if there is a way get around that.
Also, I'm curious as to how the spambots would get around the nonces. I imagine that it would at least force them to go to the post page first to figure out the nonce.
If you could put a minimum time before submitting then you could probably catch out most of them or force them to run more slowly.
But you've raised 2 very valid points and given me more stuff to think about 8=)
You must log in to post.
