Comments for Comment Spamming

Comment from Mark on 2002-10-29

2002-10-30T05:21:06Z

I want to set up a tarpit/honeypot, using some automated methods like this to spot spammers, then serve them up a fake comments form that doesn't actually post, combined with something like mod_bandwidth to dynamically throttle spamming IP addresses (rather than banning them).

http://www.cohprog.com/v3/bandwidth/doc-en.html

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Comment from Ali on 2002-10-30

2002-10-30T23:44:39Z

Comment Spamming is major problem. Isn't there a mod avaiable which allows all comments to be validated before being posted on the site?]]>

Comment from paul on 2002-10-30

2002-10-31T00:44:14Z

Small problem - your suggested solution assumes that all real users traffic will consistently come from the same ip address throughout their visit.

This isn't true if their access is through multiple web proxies (eg AOL or my office, among others), so you risk loosing real comments along with the spam.

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Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-10-30

2002-10-31T04:03:22Z

paul-- you're right. Now that I think about it, there isn't any good reason to encode the user's IP like that. I've revised my post to remove that element. No need to unnecessarily exclude real visitors.]]>

Comment from tom on 2002-11-14

2002-11-14T10:27:01Z

Form fields can be accessed via DOM document.forms(x), based on their order in the HTML, so the spammer would not need to parse the HTML. However, a hidden field that was randomly placed with each page load would foil this approach. ]]>

Spam en los weblogs

2002-10-30T21:35:47Z

Estaba leyendo el weblog de Mark Pilgrim, concretamente el post relacionado con el spam en los comentarios de los weblogs

Comment and Trackback Spamming

2002-11-05T08:17:24Z

The discussion continues on comment spamming and a couple of people have taken my initial quick fix and expanded on it nicely. Jennifer from Scripty Goddess has taken to solution into the MT tmpl files, adding the hidden field

"No Comment"

2002-11-05T08:34:53Z

I've been following with interest the issue of comment spamming through MovableType (and presumably other content management systems that use

Spam Proof your Blog

2003-05-02T15:38:20Z

I was reading an article over at bradchoate.com (via moik78) on anti-Spamming "howtos" and while I agree with his hardcore "that'll screw em" approach, there is a very simple but effective alternative to stuff these bastards up (I agree, spammers...

Spam Proof your Blog

2003-05-02T15:43:52Z

http://macrofun.pvpers.com

2003-05-02T15:44:52Z

http://macrofun.pvpers.com/mt-tb.cgi/9

2003-05-02T15:46:03Z

Blogspam

2003-07-25T14:40:35Z

...And the innocent days of blogging are over. Over the past few months I've deleted exactly two nutcase comments off my blog, both...

Spam in blogs, een nieuw probleem?

2003-10-14T22:02:33Z

Ik las onderweg al een pointer op mijn PDA-webloglezertje over een nieuw, snelgroeiend fenomeen: commentspam. Met name Movable Type-logs (wat wij dus ook hebben) schijnen hier veel last van te hebben. Een script zorgt voor 100en comments op je weblog...

Comment and Trackback Spamming

2003-11-24T18:23:20Z