Well i was satisfied with the blacklist plugin cause it took care of the gambling and other low lifes spam i got but i just found out it deletes everything !
I posted a comment on a story and got deleted all the time...
I had to take my ip and /or email address out of the database cause it ads me to it but time after time it trashes everything...
So what is wrong ?
Blacklist plugin deletes every comment.. (25 posts)
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You probably have a blank line in the blacklist. It's an easy mistake to make. Basically, if you have a blank line in the blacklist, then the plugin thinks that everything with a space in it (or any other form of blank, white space) is spam and deletes it.
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well i did found a blank line .took it out...refreshed the whole stuff ...wrote a comment and got trashed again....
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Joshua Sigar
Posted 8 years ago #
If what macmanx said is true, then this has happened way too many times already. Someone'd better tell the plugin author to create more robust function to parse the keywords. How hard is it to ignore white space? and ask users to enclose significant white space with, for example, quotes, e.g. "spam bot", " ".?
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Are you sure that was the only blank line? Did you check at the beginning and the end of the blacklist too?
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tried it again and same story....
i checked if my stuff was out of the database and still got kicked....
and the email shows this....
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Fun. Are you talking WP's default blacklist plugin or the 3rd party plugin? If you're talking about the 3rd party plugin, I'd recommend contacting the author directly.
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and from who is the WP's default blacklist ?
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The WP devs. But WP's blacklist doesn't delete the comments, it just holds them just for moderation. That is, unless you hacked it somehow. Then the issue is entirely up to you and you alone. When I'm talking about WP's default blacklist, I mean the one available under Options/Discussions.
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well the one i have was as i thought the one everybody was so positive of...
its from ...
Plugin Name: Blacklist
Plugin URI: http://www.farook.org
and yes all that helped and tried the comments got trashed....
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NuclearMoose
Posted 8 years ago #
I'm telling ya, Spaminator works, and it's no hassle. But, if you want the headaches, you can keep on trucking!
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so wp blacklist is junk ?
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Posted 8 years ago #
I'm not saying that wp-blacklist is junk, nor would anyone else, I think. However, if it doesn't seem to be working for you, then move on to something else. There's lots of choices out there. While I happily promote Spaminator, it may not be for everyone. I like it because it gets everything in my comment spam list and I turned off the "send me an email when spam is killed" and my inbox is happily devoid of stuff. Once in a while a new spam makes it past, only to be caught by another of MooKitty's spam tools, and I moderate it, adding the info with one click to my comment spam words list, and that's it.
So, like I said, if it's not working, it's not necessarily a bad plugin. It's just not doing what you want, and , perhaps, a combination of other plugins and your site design could interact in a negative way. It's happened before that some plugins step on the toes of other plugins. -
Mark (podz)
Posted 8 years ago #
@macmanx - no ads :)
As daft as this sounds, people go there for help, not to be sold something. I sort of know the arguments for putting some there, but nah... I like ad-free :)
and John - I have Kitten's plugins on 4 sites right now, and spam ? What's that then ? ;) -
well i have 12 websites running and the ads are welcome ...
its a big hobby but some funds in return is nice....
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Okay update....
I just couldnt recist trying figuring out what is wrong..
So the author of the blacklist responded and he came up with the idea to check my blacklist table for a empty line.
And yes there was one....
But that doesnt answers the question how the empty entry got in the blacklist table.
so now the blacklist works.... and even with moderation on...
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The empty line is usually just user error. Don't worry, it happens to us all the time.
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well il just wait and see what happens...
thats the fun of plugins......you can turn it on and off. -
cookiedude
Posted 8 years ago #
the WP1.5 builtin blacklist also wipes out every comment regardless of whether they contain relevant phrases or not. I removed everything but IP addresses from my blacklist and still my own comments didn't make it through and when I went through the wp_comments table I found a bunch of comments by other people that got caught (most likely by the blacklist) as well. And no, there was no white-space in my blacklist
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Try removing everything from the blacklist. Do you have any other active plugins?
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Posted 8 years ago #
I didn't have then. Now I am using Kitten's Spam Words, which worked well with 1.2 but now it only puts comments in moderation instead of deleting them. So I am currently at the mercy of the spammers again :(
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davidchait
Posted 8 years ago #
First, note that IP-address filters are near useless. Usually spammers are on dynamic IPs, either dialups, or proxies, or zombie machines.
If you would like to try out my new CG-AntiSpam, it's still in alpha form, but has done a decent job for me. I'm looking for people with active commenters AND spamming to ensure I'm not hitting false-positive cases.
It's packed in with all my other plugins here:
http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238-d
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Posted 8 years ago #
Downloaded it. Will give it a go and let you know how it turns out :)
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Posted 8 years ago #
email to cgcode at my site. that's the best place to reach me for PowerPack related coding issues/ideas/help. ;)
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SuNfAiRy
Posted 8 years ago #
I am currently running 1.2 WP and using WP Blacklist - it is deleting every comment that is left, it used to work and would email me when it would delete a comment. Now it just eats them. I read the comments left above and tried searching for a blank line, there are two in my database, however everytime I try to search for them or the first time I tried to delete them the browser freezez up. I think its time to move one. Unless anyone has any suggestions.
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