After such a long time, I finally got hit last night with 31 comment spams. Of course, I have WordPress set so that “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” before a comment appears. Everything was spam, so just two clicks and all were marked spam and moved from moderation. 🙂
Comment spam bombing
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Bryan, since the release of WP1.5, it has become much much easier to deal w/ Spam. The integrated tools work nicely with an 3rd party plugin or two to catch most of the stuff.
I’ve yet to move to one of those Authenticate scripts that forces a commenter to enter a letter+number combination, but if I get hit badly again, I might move to it…they seem pretty imperviable.
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Bryan, this post makes me realize that I really need to update my WP. I am so lazy.
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Ian: I’ll only resort to a comment spam plugin if they get through. I’m glad they haven’t, though. It’d just make for yet another thing I’d have to keep updating. I’ll do whatever I can not to resort to using a Captcha.
Ria: It should take 15-30 minutes, if everything goes smoothly. It’s totally worth it. Totally.
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15-30 minutes? Only if you include the upload time…
More like 10 seconds…. …. Okay okay… 5 seconds…
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Yeah, I know…just overshooting the time allotment in case anyone else is reading – just to be safe. I wouldn’t want anyone jumping in without that extra time on their hands, if anything goes wrong. 😉
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I’ve actually been having some comment spam problems myself lately. The thing that really confuses me is, I also have WordPress set to ““Comment author must have a previously approved comment”, yet they’re showing up anyway without any interaction by me. Any tips?
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That’s really weird, and I’m not sure. Disable, update, and reenable that option? Maybe the forums might have some insight, because I’m not sure why that’d be the case.
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