Comments on: Spammers have ruined it for the rest of you http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/ firefox extension development Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: maexx http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-15117 maexx Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:05:49 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-15117 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 ... 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 …

]]> By: bugmenot http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-14645 bugmenot Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:27:40 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-14645 Maybe something like the Spamper MOD could help? Maybe something like the Spamper MOD could help?

]]> By: The RedBurn http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-13085 The RedBurn Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:48:05 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-13085 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". 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”.

]]> By: SkyKing http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-12909 SkyKing Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:11:28 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-12909 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 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 http://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

]]> By: Eric http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-11955 Eric Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:02:52 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-11955 DLE, thanks for the tip. That makes sense, that just never occurred to me. DLE, thanks for the tip. That makes sense, that just never occurred to me.

]]> By: DLE http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-11952 DLE Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:45:49 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-11952 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. 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.

]]> By: Eric http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-11868 Eric Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:14:12 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-11868 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. 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.

]]> By: AlliXSenoS http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/comment-page-1/#comment-11867 AlliXSenoS Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:19:25 +0000 http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/11/15/spammers-have-ruined-it-for-the-rest-of-you/#comment-11867 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 :) 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 :)

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