Comments on: Blog Comment Spam Ninja Tools

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:15:05 +0000

Thanks again Mark, I’ll dig around and see what I find (program it myself ).

I did try once-upon-a-time to remove all wp- and wordpress stuff from the core files and found it to be a disaster with one of the recent upgrades. Gave up on messing around with core files, but it’s definitely an option for those.

By: 45n5

45n5 — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:36:02 +0000

Shoemoney had another great idea today “The default for wordpress is wp-comments-post.php by simply renaming this file to say… wpc.php then changing your theme to reflect the different location for the comment file you will ward off a TON of spammers. This will kill 100% of the automated spam bots.”

As for the preview thing, I thought you might program it yourself if you had free time

(but who has free time?)

So doing a search of google will lead you to a handful of already made solutions.

I’d probably try shoemoney’s first suggestion first though.

Also, here’s a secret, on the blogs I programmed myself (and use a forced preview), I’ve never gotten an automated spam comment yet (and only one or two manual idiot submissions).

I’m not sure if it’s because of the “forced preview” which was a tip from a friend or because I’m not using a spam magnet “wordpress”.

Good luck.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:37:40 +0000

Ohhhh great suggestions, thank you Mark! Not sure how to implement the preview thingy though. How do I do that?

By: 45n5

45n5 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:07:08 +0000

Just some random ideas:

Maybe take the copy “wordpress” out of your code. Bots troll for wordpress blogs.

Maybe change “Leave a comment” to “Give your opinion” or something, bots troll serps for “Leave a comment”.

Use a comment form with a mandatory “preview first” button, this is not the usual behaviour of a bot and most will leave after the first “submit”.