Spammers have ruined it for the rest of you
Sorry, but 150 entries of comment spam a day is 150 too many. I have every spam plugin you can think of, captcha images, and all of the settings are set as severe as possible. Akismet, Spam Karma, bad behavior plugins… spammers are crafty little shitheels, I’ll give them that.
Do people actually click on entries that encourage you to buy viagra? Or are people really curious about finding all about HOT SEX GIRL BUCKET RACINE TORPEDO? I have to admit, that sounds fabulous. Tell me more about racine torpedo bucket girls. I want to know all about them!
So now you have to register to post a comment. Sucks, but that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes.
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November 15th, 2006 at 4:19 am
I think the basic idea is to get links on to your site which then gets crawled by googlebot and they get pagerank.
but it is weird that that many get by all of the scripts that you mentioned… can you see how many get stopped by the scripts? if it’s below 95%, something’s wrong :)
November 15th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
What sucks is that the scripts actually stop the majority of them. In the last 7 days, an average of 147 spam comments have gotten in daily, while 6,763 have been blocked. That’s better than a 95% success rate.
That’s just retarded. I’m about 2 seconds away from disabling comments permanently.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
The problem is Spam Karma’s “Snowball Effect” setting. Disable it completely and you’ll have no more problems.
Snowball assigns positive karma to any comment that successfully makes it through the rest of the filters. In theory, this benefits frequent (good) commenters. This is the backdoor, though, for spam. If even one piece of spam makes it through, it gets a positive snowball score.
What happens is Spam Karma’s normal settings fail to stop a couple spam comments. Those comments get a positive snowball score as a result. More spam gets positive scores if sent from the same “snowball approved” spam source. The blogger, scratching his head, ratchets all the Spam Karma filters up to “supastrong,” but they seem to stop nothing anymore. That’s because the snowball effect setting is overriding everything else. It’s already recorded the old spam as being legit, so now it assigns enough karma points so that the new spam’s final karmascore is always positive, no matter what the other filters are set to.
Once I figured this out, I had no more problems; Spam Karma’s caught everything since then.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
DLE, thanks for the tip. That makes sense, that just never occurred to me.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Eric,
Hey, spammers should be shot in my book. LOL Now, I’ve written to you before and was told you would look into it but I haven’t seen any progress. The site www.d-a-l-l-a-s-n-e-w-s.com (hyphens used to hopefully keep them from seeing this post) has defeated your “Allow Right Click” extension. Any updates on when you might be able to update it to defeat them right back? It really makes using BugMeNot on their site a pretty big pain in the ass.
Thanks,
Phil
February 18th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Phil,
I don’t know why you need Allow Right Click.
You can just go to Tools>Options>Content and click on Advanced next to Javascript. You can then uncheck “Disable or replace context menus”.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Maybe something like the Spamper MOD could help?
August 9th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Had the same problem and added a visual code the posters had to type over and the problem was solved. I can’t remember which plugin it was …