Death to Spammers
Well, today, I had the dubious joy of getting my very first WordPress comment spam. Seven minutes later, I destroyed it, but I’ve been forced to activate some anti-spam measures.
Measure One: Any comment with more than two links in it will be sent to moderation. I’ll be notified of it by e-mail, and, after I approve it as non-spam, it’ll show up on the blog.
Measure Two: Also, any comment containing certain commonly-used spam words, like viagra and casino, will be moderated.
Measure Three: I’ve installed the No-Follow plug-in. Comment spam isn’t designed to get people to click on it; it’s designed to move the target page up in the Google rankings. The no-follow plug-in makes Google ignore the spammer’s links.
Hopefully, that’ll be enough. I’ve still got a few plug-ins I can try if that isn’t enough.
But if those fail, I’m going to have to resort to some well-placed hacks.
And I don’t mean the programming kind.
February 15th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
I was having a major problem with comment spam on my WordPress blog until I installed a captcha plugin. I’m completely sold on the idea — not a single comment spam has gotten through since. There are several captcha plugins available on the WordPress plugins page.