http://lavonardo.net/blog/2008/04/21/spam-spam-comments-and-spam/ The life and times of a fallen hacker Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://lavonardo.net/blog/2008/04/21/spam-spam-comments-and-spam/#comment-194 lavonardo Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:57:58 +0000 http://lavonardo.net/blog/?p=475#comment-194 I figured that introducing Akismet is easier than hand-moderating the comments, and thus far the tool has been reliable - I've seen one false positive (had to rescue a valid comment manually) and false negatives usually end up in the check these-queue. I think just a single spam entry made it through to the comments. Then again, the comments are not that numerous that checking them would entail too much work. I figured that introducing Akismet is easier than hand-moderating the comments, and thus far the tool has been reliable - I’ve seen one false positive (had to rescue a valid comment manually) and false negatives usually end up in the check these-queue. I think just a single spam entry made it through to the comments. Then again, the comments are not that numerous that checking them would entail too much work.

]]> http://lavonardo.net/blog/2008/04/21/spam-spam-comments-and-spam/#comment-193 Juha Ylitalo Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:27:54 +0000 http://lavonardo.net/blog/?p=475#comment-193 Downside in using popular software like WordPress is that all spam robots will recognize your blog as WordPress blog and as a result, they know exactly what needs to be sent for comments. At least on my blog, spam seems to concentrate on couple static pages (guestbook to be more precise), so whenever I get comments for moderation into those pages, I never read e-mails about them. Instead I go through all those comments once a week or so and mark them as spam. All in all situation is good enough that I haven't bothered to activate Akismet (then again I moderate all comments from new readers in my blog). Downside in using popular software like WordPress is that all spam robots will recognize your blog as WordPress blog and as a result, they know exactly what needs to be sent for comments.
At least on my blog, spam seems to concentrate on couple static pages (guestbook to be more precise), so whenever I get comments for moderation into those pages, I never read e-mails about them. Instead I go through all those comments once a week or so and mark them as spam. All in all situation is good enough that I haven’t bothered to activate Akismet (then again I moderate all comments from new readers in my blog).

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