Re: how to keep your blog from being spammed

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

Nan.

I assume you have Akismet set up and running.  That takes care of the vast
majority of automated spammers.  There are plugins available that do what
Donna suggested - putting in a captch box where people have to enter a code
to get their comment into the system.

This will not stop comment spammers of the new generation.

These are human beings - hired in sweat shops or "work from home" - to spend
all day entering comments of one kind or other into forms and blogs.  The
major sources of these are the US, Russia and China and all the folks doing
it share one common fact in their lives - poverty.  When you're that poor, a
few cents a link inserted into a blog means income.  So you can't stop the
human being  from putting spam onto your blog.  Pain in the anatomy to be
sure but you're the "rich person" who can afford a blog - they're the poor
trying to "get by".

There are also the SEO black hat types that enter reasonable sounding
comments into your blog for reasonable sounding URLs (until you actually
visit the darn thing)  these are a pain in the anatomy.  They charge some
company to get inbound links to their sites and they do it by spamming
blogs... or not... depending on how you perceive the comment.  When I
enabled the "no follow" plugin  that would enable a link to be a real link
and not a nofollow link, I was spammed mercilessly by this crowd. I took off
the plugin and the flood decreased.   You can't stop these folks with
software or capcha either.

You can always disable commenting (but then your real readers can't
comment)

What this world needs is a good human anti-spam system that weeds out the
stupid from the smart commenter.  (and if that's not an invitation to some
of the wags on this list - I don't know what is)

best

D

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:54 PM, N Sterman <NSterman@plantsoup.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am really frustrated by the huge number of spam comments that are
> submitted to my blog.  I have to go through the list and approve/
> disapprove them, thankfully, rather than them being posted
> automatically, but I often get 15 or 20 spam comments a day.  I am
> using Word Press.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
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