Okay, so: it looks like tab leaves the field. I’ll remember that.
Long story short: I run a blog at yukihime.com which I recently converted from MT to WordPress. I have been extraordinarily pleased with it over the past month or so, BUT…
In the lsat 12 hours I’ve gotten absolutely hammered by a spambot. Over 100 messages, and they’re still coming in, one every 3-5 minutes, as I type this. I’ve tried installing some Spam filter plugins (Farook’s Blacklist and Spam Karma – separately of course). Both have done an excellent job of stopping the spam, BUT…
I leave e-mail notification of comments on so I can tell when people post to my blog. This is great when it’s a person, but not so great when it’s a piece of spam. In fact, the auto-deletion notification schemes of these two pieces of software has in some cases DOUBLED the amount of email I was receiving … solving the blog spam problem by pushing it towards my e-mail.
I don’t WANT to moderate spam. I don’t want to THINK about spam. I want spam to be deleted by magical little elves in my sleep when I’m not looking and I never, ever, ever am even aware some big mean spammer tried to post 100+ times to my blog.
My primary email address has become all-but-unusable due to the number of false-positive “new messages” I am receiving – WordPress telling me to “please approve” another goddamned message filled with the same half-dozen hard-to-spell OTC drugs. I DON’T WANT TO APPROVE IT. I WANT YOU TO DELETE IT.
Are there any Spam plugins that not only stop spam but won’t bother to notify me about it? Of course, there are times when it might be uncertain, and in those cases, sure, moderation is fine. I just want some way to be able use my email again. 🙁
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
This is all you will ever need. It is the AuthImage WP hack.
“This hack plugin displays an image with some random text that the commenter has to enter in order for their comment to go through. This should cut down on any bots out there from spamming your comments area and perhaps remove the need for comment moderation.”
http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376
I use it and now don’t receive any of those annoying Spam messages in moderation.
Richard
Those solutions should all work well. I just started developing a new solution to the spam problem myself a few days ago and it happens to “do the blocking” before the email is sent (and it doesn’t force your users to fill out any extra form fields if you’re into the whole usability thing.) I’ve got it at my site ( http://www.nicholasjon.com/index.php?p=1410 ) feel free to drop by and check out the methodology. I’ll be putting up the files I modified to make it work later this morning.
This sounds great. I don’t know how these spammers work but lately I get around 10 spam comments a day and still increasing. They are posting comments on non-excisting posts. In the email it mentions:
A new comment on the post #1 “” is waiting for your approval
…but there is no post 1 anymore. Can’t turn off the comments feature either in those cases.
To have a solution that blocks these guys from cracking into the system would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot … I installed SpamWordBlock and it’s been working great! Peace and quiet once more.
I know that spam is an arms race and what works this month won’t next, but it might be a good idea to update the tamba with information about “when” the spam is blocked; i.e. “before accepting,” “after accepting but before posting” “after posting but then it auto-deletes it.”
Thanks again,
– Andrew
