Spamming is one of those frustrating problems that at times threatens to ruin the internet (at least, according to some). We actually get a fairly large amount of spam to JediMoose, but 99% has always been caught by a carefully selected wordlist.
However, the volume has now become unacceptable for manual moderating, and so I have installed a new WordPress plugin called ‘Bad Behaviour’ which should hopefully ease matters. However, if you find that you are trying to post and it gets rejected, then please do email me – mrben -at- jedimoose -dot- org
mrBen
One of the great things about doing it all manually – I don’t have to worry about this
I didn’t realise JediMoose had such a problem with spam
Good to see that there is a good plug-in that can hopefully rectify the situation though.
Unfortunately any site that runs commenting or forum software will eventually get found and exploited with spammers. Our volume over the last couple of weeks has probably been as much as 30-50 a day.
Ben, as I said to Bigal, I am having problems with “Trackbacks” on my site, for some reason they don’t need to be moderated and keep appearing through my previous blogs in sequental order linking back to some less than favorable sites. It is a pain in the bottom!!!!!!!
GI
Yeah – we used to have trackback problems, but haven’t for a while.
Make sure that you have a good blacklist and a good ‘moderate’ wordlist – I think that makes a big difference.
The ‘Bad Behaviour’ plugin seems to work well enough – I’ve not had any complaints yet – if you would like me to install it on your blog then let me know.