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WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons « Lorelle on WordPress — Sun, 12 May 2013 05:59:32 +0000

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By: craighorman

craighorman — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:15:54 +0000

It made me seriously think over fighting with the spam because these spammers . But what made me surprise is , I have tried every possible spam prevention tools like captcha and Recaptcha with my blog but everything seems to be sucks. Spams are the biggest bugs of any blog. Bloggers generally are compelled to deal with spam comments and even if the comment moderation is on, spammers find a way out of nowhere to insert trashy links to your blog’s comments.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:09:02 +0000

The only benefits for registration is for multiple authors or registered users (for forums, commenting, access, etc.).

Upgrading WordPress should not change your main settings, such as marking comments as requiring login and such, so that’s weird. A Plugin might have done something but that is also odd. Moving can do all kinds of fun things, so that was probably it.

People use registration to control comment moderation but that doesn’t work. Using moderation works, Akismet makes it work better, but limiting comments to only those who register and are logged in isn’t friendly nor welcome on a site with interactivity as its goal.

By: Dr. Michael Haley

Dr. Michael Haley — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:36:09 +0000

Since I upgraded my wordpress blogs, I have been getting a ton of registration spam. I noticed this page and saw my comment from several months ago… thanks for leaving it, as it provided the answer (lol). Seriously, I suppose the register boxes were somehow unchecked in the wordpress upgrade process… Unless upgrading my hosting to a different server somehow did it. Is there any known benefit to being registered for a site except that possibly the site might accept comments from registered users without being moderated?

By: Azad Shaikh

Azad Shaikh — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:27:03 +0000

“As a last resort, many are hunting for a WordPress Plugin that will add a CAPTCHA or quiz test to the registration login form for WordPress. I’ve not found one. Have you?”

I found si-captcha-for-wordpress to be very useful. You can try it, it’s work with the latest version too.

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:45:54 +0000

I’m glad you are so excited about this, but honestly, the test of time will make the difference.

By the way, the over enthusiasm may be just that, but it really feels like you are totally over the top, making me highly suspicious, so I may edit your comment accordingly. Capital letters in a comment are poor form.

By: SABRE plugin: no more registration spam | David Latapie

SABRE plugin: no more registration spam | David Latapie — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:20:24 +0000

[...] race will start. But so far, so good.They say fight fire with fire I say:Fight fire with SABRE(My exemplary story: 50 to 0 in 1 minute. Merci Didier !) This entry was posted in Informatique and tagged in english, plugin, registration [...]

By: David Latapie

David Latapie — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:10:17 +0000

I think I can be a VERY good example for using SABRE. Tonight (30 minutes ago), I came back from an evening with friends. First thing I noticed, I was getting message over message about people registrating on my blog. It used to be one every two days and I was too lazy to remove them. And all of sudden, I got not one every two days, but ONE EVERY MINUTE! My Gmail notifier was poping up all the time! Then I resolved to do something. To do something now. I googled for “spam registration wordpress”. I stumble upon this post and SABRE. I read the post, then downloaded SABRE. Meanwhile, my Gmail notifier was still poping up. I installed Sabre. Like magic, no more registration spam. I really recommend it. Sure, spammers will find a way to circumvent it. But so far, so good.

Long live SABRE! I’m adding it to my must-have list of plugins. Merci Didier !

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:15:44 +0000

I would never recommend any CAPTCHA anything. They work for a short time, building confidence, and are quickly defeated. Also, spammers are using humans to spam and they can overcome all of these.