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Advanced SpamProofing

January 09th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

I’ve recently installed Spam Karma 2 in an attempt to mitigate how much comment spam I’m getting. None of it ever shows up on the site - the default Wordpress install is good at catching comment spam. But suspicious comments just go into the moderation queue, where I have to sort through them manually, and that’s just not possible any more.

Spam Karma 2 automatically kills comments that look like spam - I won’t ever see them. Which means that there’s a slight chance that it will kill the occasional legitimate comment. If you have trouble commenting now, please feel free to email me - I want to know about problems so I can fix them. Hopefully this will make the blog easier to maintain without impacting legitimate discussion.

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14 Comments so far

  1. Viridian January 9th, 2008 11:24 am

    Hmmm…let’s see if I can comment…

  2. Viridian January 9th, 2008 11:24 am

    Well, that’s a good start. Everybody comment on this post to make sure your comment-fu stays strong!

  3. sol_hsa January 9th, 2008 12:53 pm

    Let’s see.. a short comment with uppercase characters and a link - TMDC is over, all entries etc. available at http://taat.fi/tmdc/ (including a 100 meg ISO which has all the entries in easily runnable form, dos entries are run with the provided DOSBox 0.72).

    If this gets past, I think it’s good enough =)

  4. Wynne January 9th, 2008 1:07 pm

    So if I mention Online Casinos or Viagra, you’ll probably never see this post? :-)

  5. GBGames January 9th, 2008 1:55 pm

    I rolled a 20 on commenting!

  6. SteelGolem January 10th, 2008 9:50 am

    get a bigger pen15 today! call 1-888-big-wang

  7. SteelGolem January 10th, 2008 9:53 am

    hahahah it let me BAD SPAM CHECKER

  8. SteelGolem January 10th, 2008 9:55 am

    hmm had to go through a “sorta-spam-checker” or something like that for that last one.

  9. SteelGolem January 10th, 2008 9:56 am

    and its awaiting moderation.. feel free to delete all of my replies :)

  10. Viridian January 10th, 2008 12:02 pm

    Sigh. In case you couldn’t tell from the NAME, Spam Karma 2 uses a karma system. As a registered user with previously approved comments you have a lot of karma. Or at least you DID. By posting comments that look like spam, you reduced your karma to the point where the system started asking for verification. I would like to strongly suggest that you not do that any more if you want your posts to continue to show up.

  11. SteelGolem January 10th, 2008 1:38 pm

    ah crap. that’ll learn me.

  12. Keith Weatherby II January 10th, 2008 1:40 pm

    Hmm interesting, so it starts to check huh, i’m using recaptcha, while it hasn’t done anything drastic, it does seem to have a moderate effect. It’s kind of weird though, I shouldn’t get spam comments through recaptcha since there’s supposed to be a person at one end.

    Although maybe I’m getting it through email somehow.

  13. GBGames January 11th, 2008 4:54 pm

    LOL @ SteelGolem’s expense! Sorry, but I cracked up at Viridian’s “Or at least you DID” line.

    Don’t worry. I’ll put in a good word for you. B-)

  14. SteelGolem January 12th, 2008 11:45 am

    sigh…

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