Comments on: WordPress.com Users Hit By Direct Attack – Stopped in its Tracks http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Fri, 24 May 2013 01:33:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-922983 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:34:35 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-922983 [...] WordPress.com Users Hit By Direct Attack – Stopped in its Tracks [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-102146 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:51:12 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-102146 If your “first” registered commenter was comment spam, join the club. Forcing people to register for comments is a horrid thing to do and doesn’t invite comments. In fact, it often prevents them. And, as you have seen, it doesn’t work to stop comment spam.

I get well over 1500 comment spam a day, on average lately. About 99% are caught by Akismet on this blog. I use a combination of Bad Behavior, Spam Karma, and Akismet on my other blogs and they all catch the majority of comment spam.

Cool down and don’t get fussy about comment spam. Kill it and focus on the blogging and the legitimate comments. Your blog content is worth more than all the bullies out there who want to make our blogging experience miserable. With the right tools, you don’t have to worry about it.

Remember, don’t let them win.

]]> By: Patrick http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-102078 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:17:18 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-102078 I have a small family website using WP. (will be less small once I finally find an online multimedia gallery that works with Infomaniak’s far too restrictive memory limits and PHP restrictions!).
However i have been forced to totally shut down user registration, as the !*first*! externally registered user was a manual human spammer, luckily he/she used a totally stupid email address.
Another small site I manage was hit by some hungarian spammer, again with a weird email address, googling on it revealed several 1000(!) sites that either declared that email blacklisted or had been spammed by it.
Luckily Spam Karma for WP is very very good!

]]> By: Battling Comment Spam: Human Versus Human « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-92297 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:45:23 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-92297 [...] When I first brought up the issue of humans manually comment spamming, a lot of people were skeptical, but those in the know were very worried. According to Abhijit Nadgouda of ifacethoughts and The Guardian, comment spammers are now hiring cheap labor to break through captchas and registrations to spread comment spam all over your blogs. Though a single spammer cannot be as fast as a machine, thousands of them together than spell a lot of trouble. Captchas force you to identify certain characters and enter them, which machines cannot follow. This works fine assuming that humans, for whom captchas are built, do not spam. The outsourcing trend will overcome this. [...]

]]> By: Lorelle on WordPress » Check Your Wordpress.com Comments for Comment Spam http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-11224 Mon, 22 May 2006 01:26:28 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-11224 [...] WordPress.com Users Hit By Direct Attack – Stopped in its Tracks [...]

]]> By: Lorelle on WordPress » New Comment Spammer on the Loose - Pay Attention http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-2422 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:18:57 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-2422 [...] Now, that is a legitimate comment. I know you are talking to me. I know that you have read the post and you are talking about the post’s content. While some comment spammers have been grabbing content from posts and slapping it in their comment spams, you can tell the difference between your content and a legitimate comment. [...]

]]> By: Matt http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-433 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:18:13 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/21/wordpresscom-users-hit-by-direct-attack-stopped-in-its-tracks/#comment-433 Glad to hear it. :)

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