Ugh, I’ve given up and turned on moderation so it’s going to take a little longer for comments to appear I’m afraid. The upside is people won’t get blasted with meaningless junk anymore!
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I wish you the best of luck. I’ve started selectively turning off the ability to add comments to my blog entries as the spammers are automatically posting to certain pages. However they’re not using the comment body for spam but using the website box to create links to their own site so it’s getting through the moderation checks. I guess they’re doing this to improve their Google rating. It’s annoying whatever the reason.
It is infuriating but what can you do? We’ve suffered a deluge of spam over the last few days. It’s just so pointless. Grrrr
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Check out what the Wordpress folks have adopted with <a href=”http://www.wp-plugins.net/wiki/index.php?title=SK2″>Spam Karma 2</a>. It applies a <i>load</i> of heuristics to every comment, including blacklists, signatures generated by JS in the browser, checks for your URL in trackback URLs, etc. to create a score. High scores get published, low scores get spanked, medium scores get placed in a moderation queue.
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I don’t know quite how tightly bound to Wordpress all the code is, or how much effort it would take to coax Pebble’s Java to interface with PHP code, or whether it would be easier to reimplement the whole thing in Java…
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That’s what you get for using niche software ;P
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Hi Dave! I got so sick of these that I wrote a little hack to Pebble 1.9 that provides a simple Maths captcha for comments. Its stopped 1100 comments in the last two weeks! (And the best thing is that you never get those comment emails unless they fill in the right answer – so I never see any clutter in my inbox)
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It might be worth a look <a href=”http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen/2006/01/10/1136883229429.html”>here</a> if you are interested.
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