Seen that? - Add up against Wordpress comment spam

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Add up against Wordpress comment spam I got Spam?!

If you're running a Wordpress blog and get comment spam by the tons, there might be an easy solution, and a nifty one on top. As the admin from Internet Tech Blog discovered, one man is fighting off spammers by teaching them to add. Steven Harod devised an easy to use plugin for Wordpress blogs which asks of commenters to sum up two numbers in order to submit their comment. As [...] Read More


Stop spam in Movable Type blogs I got Spam?!

As one of the readers requested, I did my best to find ways to stop comment spam on MT powered blogs. The first thing I did was to go to sixapart/movabletype website and look there. Sure enough, there's a nice selection of anti-comment-spam plugins listed there. You should definitely get the Captcha plugin, and also Askimet, while HMPassphrase looks good too. You might want to consider getting into the Honeypot project too, [...] Read More


Stop spam but don't hurt your visitors I got Spam?!

Lorelle, that wonderful blog blogger, has done her best to remind us what is blogging all about: writing and getting comments on our writings. Fearing of spam we have made it as difficult as possible for spam-scripts to plague our comment areas, but with doing so we have also managed to discourage legit readers from leaving their response. Lorelle thinks that this way spammers in fact win: "Too often they win by [...] Read More


New Tool To Fight Comment Spam BlogWealth

Comment spam is the bane of every blogger's existence. The more popular your blog gets, the more spam you'll be flooded with. Fear not! SixApart has introduced a new spam fighting tool for bloggers called TypePad antispam. Don't let its name fool you-the software is Open Source and available for a variety of blogging platforms,and unlike the software its aiming to compete with, Akismet, it's free. It puts comments in [...] Read More


Spam is here to stay The Search Engine Weblog

Spam has found a fertile dwelling and it is here to stay. Why? This is because eliminating spam is next to impossible. There are persons who receive 50 emails every day and they consider it part of their daily life. The fact is businesses - whether big or small - have a strong motivation to send bulk email. This is because compared to regular mails or hiring telemarketers, said method [...] Read More