Comments on: Comment Spam Filtering

By: Sveinbjorn Thordarson

Sveinbjorn Thordarson — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:07:21 +0000

I had some issues with spambots in the past …

The trick is to use your own custom commenting mechanism (just a simple CGI) instead of the standard MT or Wordpress tuff, then require a comment password, ban all URIs from the comment body and strip all HTML. This way, I’ve *completely* eliminated all comment spam — the robots don’t know how to proceed.

By: leeg

leeg — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:36:14 +0000

Create a company that does nothing but create false business leads for the products advertised via spamming. Use offshore labor to ensure that “human element” is involved in the process.

More money could probably be made writing software to automatically read those wibbly 1970s-style words you have to type in when submitting forms, so that spambots can do it too.
Actually, I expect a Newton could already do it…

By: n[ate]vw

n[ate]vw — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:49:51 +0000

Has your copy of Aperture arrived yet? I’m eager to hear about it here, though I’ve only heard good from previewers so far.

By: bbum

bbum — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:34:09 +0000

Hey! Someone was able to comment. So that, at least, is a good sign. I really want to leave comments enabled because I learn a huge amount from interacting with folks via comments. Especially when I’m wrong.

By: Joe Heck

Joe Heck — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:10:09 +0000

I hope this works well for you. I just turned off comments altogether, which I really didn’t want to do (nor did many of my friends who posted to my blog). I’ve been looking at WordPress and things like SpamKarma to re-enable that… so I figure I’ll watch here and see how you do.

-joe