This is crazy. This blog got hit hard by blog comment spammers. Every message now has 8 fake comments pointing to an online casino site. This is disgusting. I just activated moderation for the comments so that this stupid spam doesn’t get published. I will have to clean the site soon. Just had a look on WordPress’s site and checked their support page on how to protect the site from this stupidity.
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Comments
4 responses to “Got hit by the damn blog spammers!”
I got hit really hard, Best thing i did is used some filteration on the comments. And now I hardly get any spam. Here’s the I used list of ‘bad words’ if you are interested, just go to Options->Discussion and add the following:
-online
online casino
Video Poker
texas-holdem
online-poker
I suffered from the same problem last week… suggestions: – include some of the spam words, such as casino, online poker, and so in the “Comment Moderation” section under Options > Discussion. – There is a Plugin for Wordpess to auto-shutoff comments on posts after X number of days .. what are the chances that you get a comment on a post that is 3 months or a year old . Check it out – one last thing, make sure that you limit the number of links allowed in posts to no more than 3..
Good luck fighting spam
Three rules for the spam game:
1) you can not win.
2) you can not draw.
3) you can not leave the play.
Greetings,
Antonio, from Malaga (Spain)
Tell me about it.