Comment spam prevention

  • Well, it’s happening — comment spam (already!)
    At a bare minimum, we need to have an option to disallow hyperlinks in comments and have it strip out any A HREF and /a tags
    Beyond that…
    – word filtering
    – blacklisting
    – other suggestions?

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  • Blacklisting of domain names is actually very effective since to spam, they have to include the link.

    True. But that can be so easily obfuscated with a zillion different free ‘forwarding’ services like tinyurl.com :|.

    Yeah, but since such a huge part of comment spamming is all about the google ranking, they won’t get an increased google ranking if they have to resort to using tinyurl….

    True.
    Though unfortunately, the asses who do crapflooding act not in the interest of their sites’ page rank, but rather just act to annoy or DoS their victims. So, from what I understand, they just include randomized URLs anyway ??

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