Posted 1 year ago #
Our bloggers are complaining about a lot of spam which is coming from their comment forms. Someone has either hacked reCAPTCHA or I someone has alot of free time to spam. We are working with WPMU and have reCAPTCHA 2.7 installed.
Has anyone else come across this problem and if so is there a fix?
Does anyone else know of another good WPMU Captcha Plugin?
Thanks you
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Are you sure they are comments? Or might they be trackbacks?
Install the Simple Trackback Validation plugin. I use it, it works quite well.
Posted 1 year ago #
Yeah, what Otto42 said.
Also, what version of WPMU is it? And I also recommend you try reCAPTCHA 2.9.1, which is the latest version. Make sure you carefully read the instructions. As far as I know, reCAPTCHA 2.7 doesn't even work on WPMU. (I'm the developer for WP-reCAPTCHA 2.8 and above, and WPMU compatibility was implemented by me).
Posted 12 months ago #
They are comments. I'm receiving about 20-30 per day. They seem to be getting caught by akismet but I still get all the notices in my email of new comments. I'll try the trackback validation plug too. thanks for the recommendation.
Posted 11 months ago #
Please refer to the FAQ.
Posted 10 months ago #
I'm still getting comments (not trackbacks) go through to the spam queue, all with the word "mammamia" in them and a long list of links.
I'm using WP-recaptcha 2.94 on WordPress 2.7. I don't have Akismet or any other anti-spam plugin enabled. Should I?
Posted 8 months ago #
Same here. I'm getting lots of comment spam as well. I have all trackback and pingbacks turned off, globally and for every individual post. I even have the simple trackback validation plugin installed just in case.
It seems to be automated comment spam, so somehow they found a way to circumvent the wp-recaptcha plugin. OR as someone else said, there is someone on the internet with a lot of time to manually enter all this.
As soon as I turn off user entered comments, the spam stops.
Unfortunately I'm going to have to go with another captcha plugin until this gets fixed.
Posted 8 months ago #
Unfortunately I'm going to have to go with another captcha plugin until this gets fixed.
CAPTCHA's by themselves alone are of debatable value.
Try adding one of the following plugins: Akismet, Defensio, TypePad Anti-Spam, or Bad Behavior.
Posted 6 months ago #
I'm also getting about 20 spam comments each day in the Akismet spam queue. Should ReCaptcha have an option to just ignore/delete these comments instead of marking them as Spam and keeping them around? I think alot of people believe ReCaptcha isn't working because of it accepts comments with incorrect text entry. Or am I missing something?
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