Enough of the comment spam already…
I’m going to have to learn about and work on my spam management for this site… I guess it’s good that people can find my site, and the stats are increasing every month, but I’ve got to wonder just how much of the traffic is due to these spam-bots. Just lately, it seems I’m moderating more and more comment spam. And it’s getting to the annoying point.
Time to activate a couple of Wordpress plugins to make it harder, I guess. Anybody out there have any suggestions?
Update: I installed the Askimet spam filter a few hours ago, and it’s already weeded out 3 comments (and they’re all true spam). So that’s good. John Busco also suggested a CAPTCHA, which is the name for those things where you have to type in the distorted letters. I might end up doing that if Askimet doesn’t do the job.
Stumble It!
I don’t get much comment spam on my blogspot blog. They use one of those “captcha” mechanisms to require a human to make the post.
If you don’t already have one available, maybe look at http://www.captcha.net/
Good luck,
JohnB
Thanks John!
I’ve noticed the “CAPTCHA” over at blogspot. And now I know the name for the thing! After looking, I see there is one for WordPress. I may try it if Askimet (a sort of adaptive spam filter plugin) doesn’t work out. I just enabled it today - we’ll see if the spam level goes down…
JMF