Comments on: Video Poker Spam Attack

By: todder

todder — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:57:57 +0000

Yeah, tell me about it, I’m approaching 250 spam comments. I don’t know why it likes me so much!

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:36:15 +0000

I’m not the only one with problems!? Wow! A support group!

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 03:39:10 +0000

It’s something that you lost when you allowed comments at all, Jeremy. As long as a comment form requires no authentication, it will be easy to flood with a script.

You didn’t see much automated spam with GreyMatter because the platform just isn’t that popular.

As for the fun of moderating … I let it pile up for a couple of days, then I go in and hack-and-slash through the list. That allows me to figure out which open proxies are being regularly abused, and that lets me block them in the Tar Pit. Also, you’ll spend as much time moderating 100 comments as you will 10, and because moderation, by default, keeps them from being published … the spammers just don’t win.

See, with Moveable Type, the spammers win because they aren’t held by default. WP does this better.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:15:00 +0000

Is there anyway to prevent these bottom-dwellers totally? (Meaning, block them from WordPress, instead of moderating?)

Or is that something I lost when converting from GreyMatter?

By: kat

kat — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:07:58 +0000

Yeah, not all of us get an extra hour in our lives today. Then again, we also don’t lose an hour come spring either, so it all balances out.

Thanks for the tutorial. That helped me clear out CdM. Much appreciated.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:04:59 +0000

Extra Hour void in Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Indiana.

By: mb

mb — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:22:39 +0000

I have not gottem any spam comments in ages and I got three copies of two different ones in back-to-back days.