Nothing but spam

  • For months I watched my friends posting links to their WordPress blogs on Facebook, after a while I decided that it might be worthwhile to get one myself.

    Following weeks of installation problems and a domain registrar change I finally got my blog running. However, the only comments I am getting are SPAM SPAM SPAM. I have to sit daily and “bulk spam” comments.

    Today, from 11:40am to 12:15pm, I received SEVEN e-mails requesting my moderation of comments on one of my blog entires…ALL OF THEM WERE SPAM with links to Amazon.com items or Facebook Poker and similar irrelevant bullshit. SEVEN SPAM comments from non-existant people in a THIRTY-FIVE minute period.

    Did I really just waste weeks of my life trying to get this Blog set up only to have an endless supply of spam comments to filter through?

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  • @giordanomedia

    I have noticed an increase in spam in the past 5 months give or take. I have 2 methods of blockage. First never go without Akismet. Second become a member of Project Honey Pot, and after setting up your site as a honey pot, install the plugin for blocking honey pot flagged spammers.

    As I’ve said I have seen a noticeable spam increase in the past 5 months in comparison to the last 2.5 years. After very little research, I can only assume this a new method of spamming that hasn’t been easy to track or figure out for blockers. After reading the honey pot reports, they even say there has been a recent increase of comment spamming that is actually out gaining email spam tremendously.

    We can only hope that browsers actually open their security features to be a little more friendly for developers. The problem with security is when it is open for everyone, this always includes spammers. Project Honey Pot is a great cause though, even without a WordPress blog to control.

    Re Akisemet – I disagree. I still find that it handles 99% of all of my spam.

    Yep I get a large number of spams every day that are all dealt with by Akismet.

    Thread Starter giordanoMEDIA

    (@giordanomedia)

    Good to know that I’m not the only one, and that there are ways to make the situation manageable…

    Thanks for the responses!

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