Comments on: Stopping Blog Spam

By: Chris Frost

Chris Frost — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:41:31 +0000

To be honest I am still getting a fair few spams every day also, however what I need to weigh up is, how many would I be getting without the image verification?

I may turn it off one day and see what numbers get through, but to be honest mate, nothing is ever going to be fool proof unfortuantely :(

By: Fraser Edwards

Fraser Edwards — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:59:36 +0000

Chris – how has this worked out now that you have been using it for a while?

The maths plugin seems to be letting heaps of spam through :-(

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:55:56 +0000

Hey, I’ve just started getting some spam comments that were getting held for moderation, so luckily wordpress wasn’t displaying them, but it was still hassle having to delete them. I’ve installed this so hopefully things will work well.

Only just came across your blog but it looks good so is now in my google reader list!

By: David Fiske

David Fiske — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:48:20 +0000

I’ve used simple maths hacks (e.g. what is 1+1?) on a few of my contact forms which has so far deterred spammers. The blog gets a few spam messages every now and then but I have to approve every comment before it shows.

No great loss (well, apart from my time).

Surely there has to be a solution out there that doesn’t involve moderation or verification. OK, perhaps not!

By: Mark from Bloglyne

Mark from Bloglyne — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:07 +0000

This is interesting – I’ll be watching for an update. Please make sure to follow-up. Right now, http://www.bloglyne.com doesn’t have a huge issue with SPAM, but a couple of my other blogs get almost nothing but SPAM.