「朱72」　shu72.com » comment spam http://shu72.com the personal website of Sonya C. Wheeler Mon, 17 May 2010 04:43:42 +0000 en hourly 1 An example of really bad marketing: spam is rude http://shu72.com/2004/12/29/an-example-of-really-bad-marketing-spam-is-rude/ http://shu72.com/2004/12/29/an-example-of-really-bad-marketing-spam-is-rude/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:15:20 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2004/12/29/an-example-of-really-bad-marketing-spam-is-rude/ Some idiot bombarded my weblog with 44 copies of the same comment to one of my post yesterday. This is the main part of the comment that was left:

44 times! 44 comments I had to delete. 44 extra e-mails clogging my inbox (and hogging valuable space on my server for a while) and who knows how much time I’ve wasted taking care of someone else’s mess. Looks like for the time being my “Comment Moderation” will be on which means that future comments will be delayed in showing.

Wasted time and wasted money! Besides, bombarding someone’s website is not proper netiquette for what was suppose to be a test for advertising an alternative product. Now I know which website to avoid like the plague.

]]> http://shu72.com/2004/12/29/an-example-of-really-bad-marketing-spam-is-rude/feed/ 0 Canned spam http://shu72.com/2004/12/08/plugging-out-spam/ http://shu72.com/2004/12/08/plugging-out-spam/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:25:49 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2004/12/08/plugging-out-spam/ I’m trying a different way to deter spambots from trying to post junk about their usual casino websites and “texas-hold ’em” links. My weblog was getting hammered lately so I had to tighten my comment moderation. It was always one of my posts getting hit. I closed the ability to post comments to that one then a different post keeped getting spammed. These are recent posts so I can’t keep closing them off because of droids …er I mean bots. They’re not allowed in my cantina!

It was getting a hassle to clear out the bad comments so I decided to try something else to stop them in their tracks. It’s found on the WordPress Wiki plugins page.

Trencaspammers – Security Graphic Generator for Comments:

Only humans will be able to post thus avoiding spamming bots. It generates a graphic code you need to read and copy into a new field in the comments block.

I tried it out and it works. This should stop the flood of non-topic related cryptic comments that keeps getting into my comment moderation box.

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“Nice article.” and “More comment please? ;) ” for persons who are leaving their URL web address as discounted life insurance companies and mailing companies can’’t be good. One word. SPAM! Both of these were left to the same entry called “Postal Mishap”.

Yes, that is all that is in the body of the comments. Cryptic as they may be they’re still abit meaning less and spam it seems.

These are no the only ones. There was one other previous comment left. Cryptic just the same. I think it was some reference to their liking of a certain school. Completely nothing to do with any of my entries.

(It also looks like I need to spend some time re-vamping how my comments page shows up once comments are posted. *sigh* Another day. Another time.)

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