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Maybe No Less Spam?

by Shawn @ 11:31 am · filed under Server Admin, Blogs

The comment spam on my blog here was getting to the point of just being silly... around 4,000 spam comments per day (breaks down to about one every 15 seconds 24/7).

I decided to try and do something about it so I don't have to weed through them manually (the time consumption on this task is one of the biggest reasons I don't post as often as I used to).

So let's see how it works... if you see me posting more often, then you know it worked. ;)

57 Responses to “Maybe No Less Spam?”

  1. Geiger Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 11:49 am

    Have you tried that no-spam plugin? It works great!!!

  2. monks Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

    yum, spam sushi

  3. Georgie Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    I was getting about 500 per day until I changed the name of wp-comments-post.php to wp-comments-post-nospam.php and ensured that in my .htaccess file that all requests for wp-comment-post-nospam.php had a referer from my blog. Down to 20 a day now

  4. Shawn Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    It seems to actually be working pretty well so far… haven’t gotten a single spam since I did my “thing’. :)

  5. alek Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    Curious what the “thing” was if that is something shareable with the rest of us but not enough to tip off the spammers.

  6. Bulbboy Says:
    April 28th, 2007 at 8:13 am

    How about that Akismet ‘thing’ Shoemoney uses?
    At least that’s what I think he was using.

  7. qbarth Says:
    April 29th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    I guess the reason I was bothered about your blog being inactive is just the long history of the Shawn Hogan Fan club. It is over 10 years evolved…..maybe 13, I can’t remember.

  8. ViciousSummer Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 12:16 am

    The spam is totally wordpress related. My blogger blog gets maybe 1 spam a month and my wordpress blogs get hundreds a day (and my blogger blog has way more traffic)…

    Glad you at least figured out some sort of fix!

  9. piniyini Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 4:20 am

    Seems like you did your thing on the php side as html seems wp standard. I’ve never had a wp blog but if I did I’d probably change the form variables, c’mon might aswell tell us what you did?

  10. Thor Schrock Says:
    May 2nd, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Yes, I came here just to post a comment and see what the new trick was. How disapointing! Maybe there is no trick at all. Maybe you are just playing with my mind!

    I agree that comment spam blows, and for every system that is out there to combat it, there is an enterprising mind trying to beat the system. I don’t blame you for keeping the tactic quiet.

  11. Trapped Says:
    May 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 am

    The Askimet that you say Shoemoney uses, is not something that HE uses, it is in default of every single WP install as plugin, you just need to activate it. You guys are giving just too much credit to that Shoe.

  12. Trent Carter Says:
    June 6th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    Glad to see that your magic fix seems to be working.. I was having a REAL problem with spam, and finally decided to try Akismet - I don’t know what I was waiting for, this plug-in is fantastic! It catches 99% of the spam, and I still moderate comments so that other 1% doesn’t sneak by me. :)

  13. Navjot Singh Says:
    July 15th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    Even I am now trying to comment just to check what new trick you are using.

  14. Bidding Directory Says:
    August 4th, 2007 at 7:54 am

    I don’t see what the new trick is..lol. Maybe I will, I will like to see whats up :D

  15. Spammer-Is-Not-Me Says:
    August 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    Please do tell us the trick.

    waiting …

  16. yudi Says:
    September 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    nice to know this blog, i know from DP as a new comer.
    is my comment SPAM? he..he..i think not because u will visit unknown language blog and i’ll get nothing.
    just nice to find yours here. i’ll visit often :-)

  17. Cullen Says:
    November 15th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    speaking of spam, as a good faith measure I raised concern about a post on digitalpoint forums. in perfect taste, i told the OP “i hope you die” only to have my post removed.

    miraculously, the original thread wasn’t touched. i also recieved an infraction for this incident. i brought the issue forward in a respectful manner to the mods attention and chicago guy (dp mod) replied saying

    1) its against the rules to say anything negative about someones for sale ad, which according to the rules posted it isnt, also something i didnt do, and on top of that it wasnt a for sale ad. the OP was just posting links to 1 million email addresses to be used for spam.

    2) he said its against the rules to complain of an infraction which again, i could find no such rule.

    3) i PMed the chicago guy mod, and in a very respectful manner told him i believed DP was a more responsible place than this and 2) he should read the rules to get up to date on them himself.

    a short time later i check my email, find ive now been tagged with 10 some odd infractions (all from this chicago guy im sure, because i told him he should read the rules) and now im banned from DP until 2008.

    i intend to bring this issue before DP owners, mods, and the blogosphere. this was a blatant abuse of power on the mods part and DP should not be condoning spam activity like this or supporting it.

  18. Brandon Says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    This is the first time I’ve been to this blog :p
    I didn’t even know it existing..lol

    I’m curious to know what your “thing” was ? :)

  19. George Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Try Askimet, it’s built into Wordpress, which makes it perfect, and, more importantly, it really works :p
    - Use an API key from Wordpress.com for best results :)

  20. Farrhad Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    This is interesting.
    No trick……
    Anyways you have some nice content on the site!
    Keep it up!

  21. Random Hood Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    What was your method for less spam? lol

  22. Ali Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    So I guess it didn’t work =/

  23. Patrick Says:
    July 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    Why do posts keep getting deleted? like the smallest house, or the million seconds

  24. Russ H Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 5:56 am

    WHAT?? I can’t spam your site with 99,000 posts about my cheap viagra, cialis or canadian pharmaceuticals???
    Whats this world comin to?
    Great work bro, I can only hope to reach your level of success someday.. How about a free sitewide link on dp? ;-)

  25. Tommy Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Your a tosspot and get that fucking dimple in your chin sorted.

  26. Micah Wallace Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 6:57 am

    I would like to say you have a great website and forum. I just found the Blog and i would just like to congratulate you on such a wonderful job.

  27. band Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    hmm, this doesn’t bode well to your success being that your last post here was over a year ago ;)

  28. Adi Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 am

    Hey Shawn are you using akismet plugin or something else?

    Adi
    www.appliedeye.com

  29. Dizi izle Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    I am using akismet at my blogs. Works very fine for me.

  30. Matthew Miller Says:
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:01 am

    I would like to speak with you or someone from your company about integrating with your software for the credit card processing aspect. I am with IP Pay a division of ConvergenceTechnologies and a number of my prospects use Optigold. Integration on our side is not a problem currently we are integrated with Freeside, Power Code, and Platypus. Some type of residual benefit would be made available to you.

  31. Matrix Softwares Says:
    August 13th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

    Hi Shawn,

    DP misses you badly, please come and visit the community.

    Thanks

  32. Steve Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 6:53 am

    I sure wish Shawn would never update his blog ever again. That would be awesome.

  33. ahoura ghotbi Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Hi,

    lsn man I have tried to contact you through digitalpoint, the forum, here, but I couldnt find any ways to contact you so I had to post this comment.

    my account in DP has been banned by mistake, I can explain why if you can mail me using the mail I posted here.

    thanks,a.ghotbi

  34. Hens00 Says:
    August 31st, 2008 at 1:01 am

    Interesting that you talk about spam, considering you have been taken to court for cookie spamming ebay recently.

  35. GrAve Says:
    September 1st, 2008 at 3:19 am

    The internet has definatly changed.

    Maybe in a few years we won’t be able to use it anymore because of an outbreak.

  36. cheapcarinsuranceguy Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Hi Shawn,

    Just wnated to let you know that all emails listed on digitalpoint forums are not working. I cannot register to your account and cannot contact support/webmaster. Please fix this so users can register and post back here to let me know. Thanks.

  37. cheapcarinsuranceguy Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Please do get back to me, and post your feedback here. Much obliged!

  38. vipey Says:
    September 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Do you not use this a anymore shawn?

    please please please go and sort our the DP forum its a complete mess

  39. alena Says:
    September 21st, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Is there anyway to contact Shawn? I have a problem on DP and if I could get some help on that I would really appreciate it.

  40. friend Says:
    September 21st, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    good Action to clean spam comments from your webpage.

  41. Tuhin Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Can you please suggest me,how can I make a successful forum like you. Visit my forum: http://forum.bdprem.com

  42. Arnold Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Shawn, i’m interested in some code you did. Could you please call me at 281-678-4773. I’d like to discuss you doing some work for me.

    thx

    Arnold

  43. Submit Shop Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    I visited two or three post have not found any spam comments. For my own blog I installed plugin to stop spam

  44. Cristian Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy new Year Shawn,
    /Cristian

  45. Manuel Says:
    January 11th, 2009 at 12:58 am

    Hi Shawn, will you ever post again on this blog?

  46. Abhishek Says:
    January 16th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    use recaptcha wp plugin along with akismit !!! Will work fine !!

  47. m0ix Says:
    January 17th, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Well, I use reCaptcha that works great but people now comment less on my blog :(

  48. Rex Says:
    January 18th, 2009 at 3:28 am

    How come no posts for a whole year or so?

  49. latest sms Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 12:23 am

    try to install captcha plugin for comment box…!

  50. Justin Says:
    February 4th, 2009 at 12:59 am

    Shawn, I would do anything to be able to meet you face to face, so I could knock your ass out. Seriously, Digitalpoint has fucked me so many times. The whole thing is corrupt, and most of the admins and mods are fucking with members and scamming money. Here they are protecting their friends topics and making sure that they make a million.

    Then on the other side they are attacking others. I’m sick of this.

    You think you are off the hook because you don’t run it anymore?

    You are responsible because you created it. No matter how far you run you will never be able to get away with what you have done. Because of you, there is 100,000 getting ripped off and being raped my corrupt authorities at your forum.

    I want to be in charge of DP. No questions asked, and IN CHARGE. I’ll show you how to take care of a forum. Give me one year and the internet world will be a better place because I’ll fry all of the scammers out of that site.

    Justin Giroux
    (204)822-6143
    jlgiroux@mts.net

    If you don’t contact me you better hope that I don’t get rich because I swear I’ll cut your throat for what you did.

  51. Colin Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    One day you will return to this blog Shawn.

    It is your destiny.

  52. junkbucket Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 10:18 am

    hey shawn
    u r the administrator in digitalforums right?
    i wanted some help
    its been more than 5 days since i registered and activated my account there. but i havent got the confirmation that my account has been verified. and i cannot post anywhere and by anywhere i mean everywhere not even in the welcome thread. why so?

  53. Winson John Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    More than two years in exile may have kept all spammers away. I have been great fan of your blog. Please do blog again.

  54. vamsi Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am

    this is spam lol !!!

  55. stan Says:
    August 1st, 2009 at 7:09 am

    how are you spam blocking?

  56. Holly Swanson Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Problem with this is you come from a search engine your automatically flagged as a spammer.So the chances of you getting genuine members is very limited.Use wordpress plugins like akismet,works like a charm and you wont upset your members or future members :-)

  57. strange Says:
    April 1st, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    lol I don’t think he really gives a shit anymore guys - some of these comments made me laugh

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