Comments on: Undergoing Massive Spam Attack Today

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:57:45 +0000

That was a very, very good catch. I’ve decreased the amount of negative attention WordPress will pay to that topic — should he want to discuss poker I’ll have to manually approve the comments, but its better than getting them poofed transparently.

By: Scott Kane

Scott Kane — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:02:27 +0000

Patrick,

A coincedence perhaps, and certainly not the iSV concerned fault, but one of the 30 Dayers is working on software that relates to one of the words you’ve added to your banned list. A connection?

By: Eric D. Burdo

Eric D. Burdo — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:58:59 +0000

I run Spam Karma 2 on my WP blog. Eliminates all the spam… it’s a plugin.

However, I don’t know if you can use it with WordPress.com… but you can try the Akismet system. That should work with WordPress.com fine.

By: Hexagon

Hexagon — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:05:34 +0000

I have the same problem with my contact web form. It’s spammed a lot.

By: Andrey Butov

Andrey Butov — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:45:55 +0000

Patrick,

I’ve had the same issues, but instead of enforcing registration, I just installed a captcha plugin into my WordPress blog. It’s trivial to install, and completely removed my blog spamming problem (now to do something about the email crap coming in).

You can download the plugin from here (it’s called Anti Spam Image):

http://nio.infor96.com/archives/369