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 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:08:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU 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 Doubting the Legitimacy of Blog Comments : The Blog Herald 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 [...] [...] 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 Lorelle VanFossen Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:16:21 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-899954 @<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-899945#comment-899945" rel="nofollow"> Anne Haynes</a>: 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 <a href="http://www.akismet.com/" rel="nofollow">Akismet</a> 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, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/wordcamp-israel-wordpress-tips-talk/" title="WordCamp Israel WordPress Tips Talk" rel="nofollow">WordCamp Israel WordPress Tips Talk</a>, with more specifics on these and using some other tools to make life easier on you and not the comment spammer. @ 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 Anne Haynes 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! 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 Lorelle VanFossen Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:44:16 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-897683 @<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-897674#comment-897674" rel="nofollow"> Chris</a>: 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. @ 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 Chris 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. 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 Anne Kowalski » Blog Archive » Are CAPTCHAs Useless? 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 [...] [...] Battling Comment Spam: Human Versus Human [...]

]]> By: Are You Becoming a Little Over-Sensitive Over Comments? : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-555296 Are You Becoming a Little Over-Sensitive Over Comments? : The Blog Herald Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:58:22 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-555296 [...] bad enough when machines were automatically spamming our blog comments, it’s worse now that human comment spammers have entered the game. Add to this, those who want attention and “link juice” by [...] [...] bad enough when machines were automatically spamming our blog comments, it’s worse now that human comment spammers have entered the game. Add to this, those who want attention and “link juice” by [...]

]]> By: Blogging News » Stop Human Comment Spammers http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-461896 Blogging News » Stop Human Comment Spammers Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:44:59 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-461896 [...] brought up the issue of ethics and paid comments, and I’ve talked about the growing risk from human comment spammers. This new service is one that is making a lot of bloggers very unhappy, and some believe it gives [...] [...] brought up the issue of ethics and paid comments, and I’ve talked about the growing risk from human comment spammers. This new service is one that is making a lot of bloggers very unhappy, and some believe it gives [...]

]]> By: Stop Human Comment Spammers : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-418154 Stop Human Comment Spammers : The Blog Herald Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:07:35 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-418154 [...] brought up the issue of ethics and paid comments, and I’ve talked about the growing risk from human comment spammers. This new service is one that is making a lot of bloggers very unhappy, and some believe it gives [...] [...] brought up the issue of ethics and paid comments, and I’ve talked about the growing risk from human comment spammers. This new service is one that is making a lot of bloggers very unhappy, and some believe it gives [...]

]]> By: When a Blogger's Generosity is Exploited... - eMoms at Home - Blogging and Internet Marketing for Home Based Entrepreneurs http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-414440 When a Blogger's Generosity is Exploited... - eMoms at Home - Blogging and Internet Marketing for Home Based Entrepreneurs Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:24:59 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/#comment-414440 [...] wasn’t the first to ring the warning bell on this one - Lorelle on WordPress brought it up at the end of last year (AND over a year ago!) - before the DoFollow movement even [...] [...] wasn’t the first to ring the warning bell on this one - Lorelle on WordPress brought it up at the end of last year (AND over a year ago!) - before the DoFollow movement even [...]

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