Spammers in Comments

this is not a bug in wp. all blogging tools that allow comments are affected by comment spam. if you have comments enabled, you’ll have to deal with spam. the only way to stop comment spam on your blog is to turn off comments.

You could try using your discussions options to hold comments for moderation if they contain 1 or more links. I’ve actually had the most success by keeping a very thorough keyword blacklist an requiring a name and email address to be posted with the comment.

Is it like that?
I got one more site, which I never update with new posts. Its not at all affected.
So when ever i update/post a new matter to my- this site, these spammers are getting a hint,
I dont want any anonymous person to know about my site update when they are not subscribed to know.
How are they getting to know about my site update. How can I stop this trigger? Since my site is very much restricted to a small group of people related to a specific ethinic culture, I dont want it to trigger these spammers.
Blocking is not at all a solution, because, they change ip-domain-content – so frequent, one single owner of site will have to spend all his time in configuring the block plugin.

How about a secure feature,
If any one is so much interested to leave on comment on our post, let them enter that secure word also.
Secure word login: now a days this is so popular during registration process to stop automated registrations, some random alpha-numericals appear in the registration form, and user need to enter them manually to submit.
If this spammer spending >=$5.25/hr to post comments on my site is willing to do this one more extra step?? I dont know, but there is some thing triggering these spammers, that my site is updated, and they are posting these comments which no one will read including me.

i combined automatic ip banning with wp-blacklist. my blacklist is not very aggressive. if the blacklist is tripped, i know it’s a spammer and the ip is banned in my htaccess file without me having to do a thing. i check my htaccess file every few days to see all the new banned ips for comment spamming.

it’s not a bug.

What can be called a bug?
i have no better term for this problem to generalize. Tell me why is my site triggering someone whenever I update it?

Whenever you post to your blog, your RSS feeds are updated. These feeds are easily accessible (as they should be for your individuals using news readers). Whenever your RSS is updated, it throws up a flag to any bot visiting your site. Some of these bots are SPAM bots an immediately post. Others are syndication services (services which keep a list of recently updated blogs, Syndic8 and PubSub to name a few). Some spammers (or SPAM bots) actually follow syndication services very closely as they can use them to quickly link to your blog and post a SPAM comment. Again, what’s happening is not a bug. It’s a threat. And there’s nothing you can do about it short of disabling all comments. THis threat affects everything with comment features. It affects WordPress, MovableType, TypePad, PHPNuke, etc.
However, if you’re going to block IP addresses, keep in mind that you may be blocking future visitors. Rarely is an IP ever unique. Blocking an IP address should be used only to break up a comment SPAM flood for one day, no longer. Blocking keywords and URLs is the best way to go about it.

Bhanu, the spammers look for sites which are highly ranked on search engines etc. Since your site caters, as you say, to a niche market, it probably ranks very highly on certain search engines for particular terms. This might be why they keep on hitting your site. And these are not people but automated robot scripts which when they find a good site, keep on hammering that site with spam comments. The only thing you can do is add effective preventive measures – this is a problem you face with almost any popular blogging software that many people use and is open sourced.
One sugestion that I have for you is to use the WPBlacklist plugin. It will automatically delete comments identified as spam and at the same time, add the details from those comments, so updating your blacklist and making it more effective. However, you will need to do some work before you can get a plugin working effectively. If you want to download it, you can get it from https://sm.farook.org/files/WPBlacklist261.zip

I now moderate all comments because of spammers. I like the bot-thwarting things that request a random number to be entered that I’ve seen on some MT blogs.
In the meantime, I often get multiple posts from the same legit person who doesn’t understand that I have comment moderation on.
I wanted to make a change to the text in my wp-comments-reply.php, to add text to let people know I moderate, but it doesn’t seem to work. Is that the right file to modify?

wp-comments.php
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<h2 id="postcomment"><?php _e(“Leave a comment”); ?></h2>
<?php if (‘open’ == $post->comment_status) { ?>
<?php
if (0 != get_settings(‘comment_moderation’)) {
?>

Please note: Comment moderation is currently enabled so there may be a delay between when you post your comment and when it shows up. Patience is a virtue; there's no need to resubmit your comment.

<?php } // comment_moderation != ‘none’ ?>

Thanks! Worked!

I am thankful to each n everyone who spend their precious time to help me -> deal with spammer prblm.
I am very happy that, there are real guys here to help with suggestions and help me to cope up with problem in very less time.
Thank you very much
-Regards,

In case anyone is wondering, here’s an article that goes into detail about why IP banning is a bad idea and I do suggest that everyone at least read the first two paragraphs. https://kalsey.com/2004/02/why_ip_banning_is_useless/

I’ve just been reading this thread. Thanks for all the info. However, when I pasted the above code into my comments page, it made it go funny.
Do I have to replace another code snippet with this code?
cheers!