Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Maybe No Less Spam?

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. ;)

12 Responses to “Maybe No Less Spam?”

  1. Geiger Says:

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

  2. monks Says:

    yum, spam sushi

  3. Georgie Says:

    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:

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

  5. alek Says:

    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:

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

  7. qbarth Says:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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. Patrick Says:

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

  12. Manuel Says:

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

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