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  • Ka-chow! I’m getting very good results with comment-SPAM control using the WP-Ban, Akismet, and Worst Offenders plugins. Akismet using the API code rocks (duh) and quarantines virtually all comment spam, BUT one or two incoming comments falsely tagged as spam have forced this tidy blogmaster always to carefully check the Akismet list (and untag the very rare false positives) before hitting Delete All. Tedious.
    The Worst Offenders plugin also works great but has a sparse and rather gearhead configuration scheme — with display problems in Safari (Mac OSX). Worst Offenders simply clusters serial spammers’ comments by their duplicate IP code but doesn’t automatically reject those spams. This means you CAN quickly find and zap the worst offenders’ spam, but you can’t thereafter ban those offenders by IP#, so you still have to switch to the Akismet list afterward and zap the remaining spams, and the worst offenders will simply come back again later. Almost as tedious.
    I added the effective (but rough-edged and risky) WP-Ban plugin so that I could automatically and permanently reject all known spammers by IP#, BEFORE they even land in my blog or get into the Akismet quarantine list. One nice goodie in the WP-Ban options is an easily-customized HTML rejection message for spammers — try “Bite THIS, ya germ!” or whatever.
    The three plugins together are easy to use and working great….

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  • Thanks for the post!

    ear1grey

    (@ear1grey)

    FYI Worst Offenders for WordPress 2.5 is currently in development.

    i have loved using worst offenders. i don’t know how anyone would deal with spam without it TBH.

    looks like it might be going PHP5 only though.

    i will have to get on to our hosting ppl.

    I have a question regarding a weird result in my WP Stats under Counterzeii. I have, on a regular basis, some signs like this in my stats

    \’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+ \’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+ \’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+ \’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+ \’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+ \’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+\’/\’+uri+ \’ (F)

    Can someone pls explain we what in gods name is this, and how can i remove it? Is it some sort of spam or anything else, and if it is, what can it do to my website ?

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