Fri 26 Jan 2007
Grrr. Comment Spam
Posted by Liza under Personal
I am so sick of comment spam.
Really. None of us is looking for a video on that, or that either. (Ewww! I don’t even want to read a URL about that.) And if you’re looking for those videos, I suspect you can find them yourself; you don’t need to look here.
Both v**g*a and hoo**a seem like bad ideas for me, and, I suspect, most of you. I don’t think those are real designer handbags, I’m not going to buy my insurance from a link in someone’s blog comments, and what is UP with all this weird spam in Italian? With Israeli URLs???
I erase about 200 comment spams per day here, and the other blog gets about the same. Fortunately, the rest of the team has taken on erasing spam too.
Anyone have a blog anti-spam solution they love?
(Note, a live hyperlink will cause your comment to get stuck in the moderation queue, probably even if you’ve commented before. Otherwise, you too would have to see about 25% of my comment spam.)
January 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
another blogger i read was having the same problem and i think what she did to stop it was move her blog from moveable type to wordpress.
January 27th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Do you have the Akismet plugin turned on in WordPress? It’s not a perfect solution, but it does cut down on the influx. Also, the more spam you add to it, the more it “learns” what to filter, so it only gets better.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I second Dana’s suggestion of Akismet. You do have to go through what it catches, though, because sometimes it works a little too well and filters out actual comments.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Spam
January 28th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Hi Liza,
Is there an email address where I can write to you? I’d like to share my own weight loss project with you.
You can reach me through
ladyluck at setzer.com
Hope all is well, hope I get to meet you and your family one day.
Hugs,
Karen
January 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I don’t know if it works for blogs, but my outlook has a new sp*m filter from cloudmark desktop - it’s awesome - it’s only like 39 bucks a year, adn you get a free trial offer - it saves me about 20 minutes at the top of my day - heaven.