Comment spam
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Sep/042
Sep/042
I just got hit by a bout of comment spam so I took several measures to remedy to this:
- Increased the interval between consecutive comments from the default 10 seconds to 90 seconds by editing wp-comment-post.php (see “More comment flood” at Weblog Tools Collection).
- Installed the Auto-Close Comments plugin by Scott Hanson.
- Installed Spam Tar Pit and Kitten’s Spam Words.
This should do the trick. Everything was courtesy of comment spam stoppage techniques from Weblog Tools Collection.
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Me, elsewhere
20:44 on September 16th, 2004
We may have been hit by the same shithead. I was going to check the WP plug-in page, but I see you’ve already done so and posted links — many thanks!
23:10 on September 16th, 2004
Sorry to hear that and glad I could help!
The tricky part was that I set the link limit at 5 and the bastard used only 4 links in his (I assume that’s a “he”) “comments”… Hopefully, the measures described above should stop most of the spam. Good luck!