Spammers of the World, I salute you.

I know. I tried them all. The problem is they block comments AFTER the spammer has sent their comment and wasted your CPU and bandwidth. My hack closes comments entirely to that IP address (i.e. “Sorry, comments are closed for this item.”) so they can’t even try to post.

unless you ban them from visiting your site, they’ll still try to post, so cpu and bandwidth will be wasted anyway.

And most of the time, the spammers are posting right to the wp-comments.php page, bypassing the comment form to begin with.

Tg

The ones that have been bothering me are actually scraping the forms off my site and reading them, then a couple of hours later, will POST to the same comment ID they just scraped.

So is there no way to just prevent the web-server from serving the comments page without a request for the main page? have it check back and see a browser previous/history page, and if it’s not your main page simply redirect them to the main-page?

What about renaming your comment file? Granted, you would also have to do a lot of editing to make everything else USE that file.. but deviating slightly from the default filename would be awesome.

rename wp-comments-post.php and then reflect the change in your wp-comments.php file. that’s it. of course, spammers have already beaten this.

So Charle, you are saying that if I rename my wp-comments-post.php to let’s say wp-abc123.php and then change it in my wp-comments.php file it should take care of the problem?

I am new to this and just wanted to clarify.

Exactly. The spammers have already gotten around that. That’s how I got hit with so many comment spams last weekend.

Right now I’m using a combination of the SpamAssassin plugin and realtime blackhole lists, along with some fairly strict user agent filtering. And a custom 403 page in case a legitimate user happens to accidentally get blocked.

The blackhole lists let people view the site, but not post comments (WP closes comments/pings entirely if they’re on the blackhole list, and I’ll have this hack out shortly. Of course I said that yesterday, but now that I’m snowed in, it might actually happen.)

is it SUPER easy to install? I am so new to this, and really keep screwing it up!!!

I need idiot proof instructions, and maybe a babysitter!

Snow… ugh.

Okay,
I would like to try Spaminator. I was on page: https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/Spaminator,

But did not see a link to get me to where I can download it.
Help

https://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/archives/2004/10/31/kittens-spaminator/

RC, here’s the new link:

https://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/spaminator/trunk/