Comments on: Seriously, all this spam… http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/ Moxiecode Developer Blog, talking about things we come across. Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:15:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Afraithe http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 Afraithe Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:21:26 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1381 Yeah we have made some safeguards to protect against spam now, seems to work. Not using Akismet though. Problem was that it doesn't actually delete the spam (we had like 200 spam per day, at least) so it still piles up. Also it deleted all our previous comments that we had approved, needles to say, that addon got thrown out rather fast. Yeah we have made some safeguards to protect against spam now, seems to work. Not using Akismet though. Problem was that it doesn’t actually delete the spam (we had like 200 spam per day, at least) so it still piles up. Also it deleted all our previous comments that we had approved, needles to say, that addon got thrown out rather fast.

]]> By: Bill D http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1380 Bill D Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:15:29 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1380 The easiest way to combat spam is to add an input with style="visible: false;" (or whatever the code is) so we won't see it and most spam bots will put some value in that box anyway and if there is a value in that field throw the thing out as spam. It also helps to name the input something common, like "date". The easiest way to combat spam is to add an input with style=”visible: false;” (or whatever the code is) so we won’t see it and most spam bots will put some value in that box anyway and if there is a value in that field throw the thing out as spam. It also helps to name the input something common, like “date”.

]]> By: Ray http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 Ray Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:41:54 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1378 Akismet actually catches nearly almost 99% of the spam. Maybe your installation had a problem. Akismet actually catches nearly almost 99% of the spam. Maybe your installation had a problem.

]]> By: Afraithe http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 Afraithe Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:46:45 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1365 Well we also use it to test TinyMCE with the file and imagemanager in Wordpress. Well we also use it to test TinyMCE with the file and imagemanager in WordPress.

]]> By: Jim http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1362 Jim Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:43:26 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1362 why you use Wordpress? why you use WordPress?

]]> By: Afraithe http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1357 Afraithe Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:07:16 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1357 Well I looked into that, none really worked very well of the ones I tried, could be cause this theme is a bit old or something. Either way, any of the popular Captcha would probably already be cracked. We have made some modifications, and haven't had a single spam yet. Well I looked into that, none really worked very well of the ones I tried, could be cause this theme is a bit old or something. Either way, any of the popular Captcha would probably already be cracked.

We have made some modifications, and haven’t had a single spam yet.

]]> By: Ryan http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1355 Ryan Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:25:55 +0000 http://blog.moxiecode.com/?p=24#comment-1355 What about some kind of captcha thingy on this comment form? What about some kind of captcha thingy on this comment form?

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