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July 6, 2005
The SPAM strikes back
A while back I was having problems with comment spam. Some changes to my Moveable type installation put a stop to 95% of it, and all was well with the world.
Lately though, I've been getting heavy loads of Trackback Spam. So later today I'm going to do something about it. First I'll try the same fixes that I made to battle comment spam, if that doesn't work I'll incorporate some sort of Turing test for commenters and trackbacks.
I'm not happy about doing either, because it reduces the ability of people to comment or send relevant trackbacks, but the War on Spam is never-ending, and one must remain vigilant.
SO!?!?!?!?!?! If the site goes down later today, please check back later. I may have to pull it completely down for a while to implement changes.
--Jason
UPDATE: Well, things seem to be going well, I've added two plugins and some custom hacks to try and block comment and trackback spam. I decided against a Turing test for commenters because a few people emailed that they read this blog via the feed, and a turing test would have hampered their use of the site. So we'll see how this goes.
-JC
Posted by JasonColeman at July 6, 2005 12:27 PM
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I feel your pain. My blog got hit over a month ago, so far SpamKarma (for Wordpress) has stopped 4002 SPAM comments.
Hope you are able to stop it as well!
Posted by: Hemisphere Dancer at July 6, 2005 12:55 PM
