Comments on: Battling Comment Spam: Human Versus Human http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Wed, 22 May 2013 09:02:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-989589 Sun, 12 May 2013 05:59:07 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-989589 […] Battling Comment Spam: Human Versus Human […]

]]> By: Golden Brewski » Blog Archive » Spam, yes, but rather poetic, don’t you think? http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-922806 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:36:40 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-922806 [...] Here’s Lorelle on Human Generated Comment Spam http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/ [...]

]]> By: The Price of Closing Comments on Old Posts | The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-910155 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:55:35 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-910155 [...] Human spammers also don’t check the expiration date of your blog post. They want your traffic and they understand the nuances of how Google’s Page Rank works. They target posts with similar or related keywords and topics so their trackback spam “counts” towards them and away from you. [...]

]]> By: WTF Blog Clutter: The Death of the CAPTCHA | The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-908853 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:13:45 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-908853 [...] yes, the human element. Human comment spammers have been around for a while. Spammers found out they could cheaply hire third world workers to [...]

]]> By: Doubting the Legitimacy of Blog Comments : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-906002 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:05:54 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-906002 [...] long been plagued by comment spammers and their tricks, including hiring people in third world countries to manually spam your blog, and the recent batch of “intelligent” spamming bots which use your blog post title and [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-899954 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:16:21 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-899954 @ Anne Haynes:

Depending upon your version of WordPress, do not install these Plugins, at least not Bad Behavior. They no longer work with the latest versions of WordPress. Please use Akismet instead or Defensio. I can’t believe you have gotten this far without using anything.

There are many ways of reporting comment spam, but these Plugins do the job for you in many respects. You become a part of the community of bloggers fighting against comment spam by marking and identifying it as such. I recommend you check out my article, WordCamp Israel WordPress Tips Talk, with more specifics on these and using some other tools to make life easier on you and not the comment spammer.

]]> By: Anne Haynes http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-899945 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:45:12 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-899945 My wordpress blog has come to it’s knees from comment spam. I’m going to install Spam Karma and Bad Behavior tonight. Last might I marked 1500 comments as spam in one day. There has to be a way to report these google groups, Yahoo! 360 and blogger fake pages to the engines for removal. It’s obvious these pages aren’t websites and there is no name or contact. Oh wait, some of them do have names like Julie567. Thanks for the blog post!

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-897683 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:44:16 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-897683 @ Chris:

Actually, CAPTCHAs, no matter which kind, continue to not work. However, paying close attention to comments, especially human spammers and those commenting totally out of self interest rather than a sincere desire to continue the conversation – combined with solid blog comment spam fighting tools like Akismet and Defensio, which do not interfere with a reader and their comments – CAPTCHAs are old hat and dead. Bot and human spammers can break them, no matter how pretty the little letters and numbers are.

]]> By: Chris http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-897674 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:27:16 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-897674 The best way to fight spam is to use ReCaptcha. It uses words that have failed OCR and the output is being used to digitize books. No bot can ORC that because it can’t be done.

]]> By: Anne Kowalski » Blog Archive » Are CAPTCHAs Useless? http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-597102 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:13:13 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-597102 [...] Battling Comment Spam: Human Versus Human [...]

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