How to stop scraper pingbacks

  • kabitzin

    (@kabitzin)


    18 years, 6 months ago

    I don’t want to shut off trackbacks/pingbacks because I do get some legitimate ones, but I also get a lot of pingbacks from scraper sites. However, my plugins do not catch these pingbacks (until I add them to my blacklist) because the pingbacks are legitimate in that the scraper site includes a link to my site so the pingback validates. I use Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2.

    Is there a plugin that will send all approved pingbacks/trackbacks into the moderation queue? I did see one from mtdewvirus, but it hasn’t been updated in 3 years.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Whoops. Left out a semicolon. I fixed the post, try it again.

    Rok: I have no idea about Spam Karma, I don’t use it. If this won’t work with Spam Karma, then Spam Karma is broken, IMO.

    Thread Starter kabitzin

    (@kabitzin)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    The plugin activated no problem this time, now to wait until I get splogged.

    edelen

    (@edelen)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks, Otto42! It’s activated. Let’s see if it works.

    edelen

    (@edelen)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Otto42,

    Your plugin did not work. It stopped all comments from coming into my blog. Whenever someone attempted to post a comment, it would create a null comment that effectively blocked all other readers from commenting.

    🙁

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