…that I despise comment spam? After a brief respite from it when I moved to WordPress, it has resumed with vigor of late. While WP does a better job of stopping the things before the hit the blog (although it still isn’t perfect), I am still getting a ton of messages held for moderation for various online poker games and a variety of pharmaceutical products.
When I think of comment spammers and thier little, annoying webbots, I am reminded of perhaps my favorite all-time Peanuts cartoon. It was a Sunday strip in which Snoopy is trying to obtain, as he was wont to do, Linus’ blanket. As he sneaks up on Linus, Linus informs him of the following consequence should he suceed:
I will destroy you. I will destroy you and the place where you were born. I will destroy the records at the court house. I will pounce on you like the last days of Pompeii
(I think that is the whole quote, the last line being the best. I half think I may be leaving out something in the middle).
In regards to comment spammers I can be say, if only.
Indeed, this should be the Blogger’s Anti-Spam Creed.
(And if anyone has a scan of the above-mentioned Peanuts strip, or knows of its existence on the web, I’d love to have a copy–or even just the date of the strip).
Of course, I am not the only one hacked at these folks, as Michele Catalano and Buzz ain’t none too happy with these folks either.
Update: The Creed is now parked in the OTB Taffic Jam, where it won’t be considered spam.
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I use WordPress and there are three plugins that you can use to help with this. One allows “mass deleting” of comments when there are a lot already there, one creates a whitelist (once comments are approved, those people can post again without moderation), and one bans by IP and delays before an access denied page. Contact me if you want any more info.
Comment by Brandon Jaynes — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 9:40 am
Thanks for the tips–plugin hunting was on my “To Do” list. I shall give those a looksee.
Comment by Steven Taylor — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 9:43 am
Spamdillyicious
Like Steven, I hate the spammers with a passion normally reserved for Michael Moore fans and reality television shows. I…
Trackback by Overtaken by Events — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 10:40 am
I was going to make the jump to WordPress, but I actually think the MT-Blacklist does a good job of bulk deleting.
It seems like every Wednesday and Thursday the major porn and pill spam comes through with Texas-Holdem on the weekends. I wonder why that is.
Comment by Erick-Woods Erickson — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 10:44 am
pMachine has been largely immune, but we’ve had a relative ton lately on old posts, placed manually. Which does no good because none of it’s been up more than a few hours before being deleted, and usually no more than a few minutes.
WordPress is worse, which is why Deb turned on moderation on the baby’s blog. It has its merits and is free, but I have no objection to Deb’s desire to move to the commercial version of Expression Engine. Apart from being good, that continues to keep us on a small target.
Comment by Jay — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 11:07 am
I gave Express Engine a long, hard look and decided that I preferred WP.
Comment by Steven Taylor — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
I have found that WP is working beteter than MT-Blacklist. Towards the end of my tenure with MT, some of the porn spammers had found a way around Blacklist and I had had 100s of porn spams that I didn’t even know had made it through the filters and Blacklist.
Comment by Steven Taylor — Thursday, October 28, 2024 @ 12:04 pm
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