Blog Comments and Spam
August 31, 2008 1:13 pm PHPDue to the recent number of "Spam" comments received on this blog, I have been forced to implement the restriction that all users must be registered and logged in before they can submit comments. Sorry for any inconvenience; once again you can thank the spamming scum of the world who do their best to ruin the interenet for the rest of us.
cwreace :
Date: September 1, 2008 @ 12:10
I installed the Akismet plug-in today to see if it will stop most of the spam, and accordingly have unset the registration restriction for comments. We’ll see how that goes for awhile.
cwreace :
Date: September 2, 2008 @ 17:39
Wow! As of this writing, 548 spam comments have been blocked by the Akismet plug-in. Almost makes me wonder if I should reinstate the registration requirement just to save bandwidth.
Dougal :
Date: September 3, 2008 @ 09:21
I also use Akismet - I’ve not had it wrongly mark a spam comment or allow spam through yet. I do still check every couple of days though.
cwreace :
Date: September 4, 2008 @ 16:52
In my continuing attempt to make life difficult on spammers while not making it too difficult on legitimate users, I’ve installed the Register Plus WordPress plug-in. Users will now be required to register before they can post comments, but the plug-in should make it easier to do so as no password or confirmation emails will be involved. I did turn on the “captcha” option, which while I dislike those things it should hopefully help stop spambots from registering. If they do, then I’ll up the ante by enabling the ReCaptcha option.