Comments on: Nuisance spamming

by: Administrator

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:47:25 +0000

Kevin:
When you mark it as spam, it’s removed from your blog and admin interface, but stays in the database. I’ve stopped marking as spam. I’ll do a backup of that part of the database, then delete the stuff outright instead. The point of that feature is that you can retain the evidence in the database, but no longer have to deal with it. It does cause some database bloat, though.

by: Kevin

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:07:49 +0000

So when you Moderate a comment in WordPress and mark it as “spam”, does that do anything besides delete it? I have 369 of these little nuisances to delete.

by: Marco

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:37:13 +0000

Spammers work like shooting with schrapnel. You’ll always hit something and the fact that a lot of particles miss doesn’t matter because it doesn’t cost any money anyway. It’s way too much hassle for spammers to go and check every individual blog. Imagine, if you spam 5000 blogs and the spam gets posted on 300 of them after just running a tool for a couple of hours there’s no need to check anything. The spam run will have been succesful.

by: John

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:25:04 +0000

Seems to be the latest attempt to get past spam filters. Spam Karma is holding its own on my site, though I am seeing a sudden uptick in the number trackback spams again. I suspect that is the reason for the blog entry URLs being included. They put their spam link in the author field, and reference somebody else’s blog in the comment text hoping to throw off the trackback spam checking tools I guess.

Silly thing is that they don’t seem to check whether their comments actually get posted - I have been getting between 50 and 100 attempts per day, and not one has actually made it onto the site. You’d have thought that they’d include something to test whether their scheme was working, and move on if a site blocks their spam.

by: Jennifer

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:52:45 +0000

Been hit here too.

Not sure what the point of leaving other people’s URL in the post is, thats free adverts for the person being “victimized”.

by: Rob

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:55:38 +0000

This blog spamming is terrible. I’ve been getting one every ~8 minutes for the last two days. Thanks for the help, Marco.

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Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:51:04 +0000

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by: Marco

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:24:32 +0000

Nice service Steven! I’ve been thinking about creating something like that as well but it seems you beat me

Annoyed as I was with the recent nuisance spamruns I decided to take some extra revenge and extend my anti-spam ideas to WordPress. I created the question-thing you’ve got on Puzil.com as a WordPress plugin and I’ve ported my hardened-trackback protection scheme to WordPress as well. Both techniques originally from Pivot-Blacklist, the anti-spam suite I created for Pivot.

Anyone interested please check out

http://www.i-marco.nl/wp/wordpress/

by: Steven Livingstone

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:40:07 +0000

Hi - this automated stuff was irritating me so much and captcha was geting out of control so i just wrote Puzil.com

The web service allows you to integrate it if you want otherwise it can host your comments and stuff.

There is also the Spam Summit this week - not heard anything out of that one yet though.

by: Alanna

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 05:50:55 +0000

Thank you for the email. Someone else emailed me too, saying a person going by the last name of Dickerson was using my url. I put a post on my website letting people know and I replied to the one you told me about. Thanks again. So annoying!