Comment Spam
Wordpress is cool. It offers a simple way for anybody to play around with blogging on their site, however, as with any piece of software which is widely used it can be open to exploitation. Wordpress, due to its popularity, has attracted comment Spammers, very annoying. I am trying to work out if this type of spam is spawned form virus infected “zombie” machines, not sure yet. Anyhow the most effective thing to overcome it is WP-Hashcash, which requires a browser with javascript working to make a comment, something that Spam bots usually lack. So far it has eliminated all my spam, of which I was getting about 20 comments a day.
Update: Well it seems that it isnt working anymore, recently i am get about 40 to 100 spam comments a day.
Update 2: Giving Spam Karma 2 a go.
October 6th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
1 week to go :)