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Stopping Spamblog Registration in WordPress MultiUser

May 20, 2009 · 46 comments

in work

I’ve been running a copy of WordPress MultiUser for over a year now. Comment spam hasn’t been much of a problem, thanks to Akismet, but if I leave site registration open (so students and faculty can create new accounts and blogs), the evil spammers find it and start sending their bots en masse.
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Trying WP-SpamFree

April 27, 2009 · 8 comments

in general

Thanks to a tip from David Esrati (who I’m not going to link to from this post because I’m taunting spammers and don’t want to inflict collateral damage on him), I’m testing out WP-SpamFree which is a really interesting antispam plugin for WordPress. I’ve used Akismet and Mollom before, and I’ve always been uncomfortable with [...]

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on battling spam

January 21, 2009 · 3 comments

in general

The evil spammers have websites listing blogs that are ripe targets for their filthy spam, so it’s only fair that we also share ways to successfully beat them back into submission. I’ve been using Akismet pretty much exclusively on my blog since switching back to WordPress. It’s been pretty good, but sometimes goes into “large-bore [...]

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UCalgaryBlogs.ca now protected by Akismet

November 3, 2008 · 10 comments

in general

I got word back from Akismet that using it on UCalgaryBlogs.ca to protect all of the blogs hosted there falls under the free license, despite the wording on their website that suggests it’s an enterprise use. This means I’m now able to protect all blogs on the service with Akismet, without requiring a Captcha challenge.
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akismet for ucalgaryblogs.ca - November 2, 2008

I just got confirmation from Akismet that I can use the antispam service for free on UCalgaryBlogs.ca – early next week I’ll figure out how to mu-plugin ify it, and hardcode the keys and links so everyone’s covered automatically by Akismet. Sweet.

blogging has officially jumped the shark

October 29, 2008 · 6 comments

in general

I was just invited to enter an entirely reputable “blog awards” contest, for the low, low entry fee of only $195 – but ACT NOW! The entry fee goes up to $275 in January!

I can’t wait to be invited to attend the Nigerian Dead Relatives Blog Directory Awards…

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overzealous antispam and campus blogging

October 26, 2008 · 3 comments

in work

I just had to uninstall the TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter from UCalgaryBlogs.ca – it’s a simple plugin that uses a dictionary lookup to try to detect what it thinks are REALLY obvious spam comment attempts. But it was a bit overzealous. Instead of just modifying the dictionary to remove some valid words (which words are [...]

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spam-o-rama

October 20, 2008 · 2 comments

in general

I’d missed the news, but the latest version of the Akismet plugin for WordPress includes some tasty stats. As with all things statistical, there’s a few ways to read the numbers, and there are some anomalies (ferinstance, it claims I had a few days of over 1000 ham i.e., valid comments per day and that’s [...]

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trying the latest wp-mollom

August 26, 2008 · 7 comments

in general

I just upgraded to wp-mollom 0.6.0 and it has a bunch of additions and fixes. If anyone has problems with it, please let me know asap.

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mollom just got punted

August 19, 2008 · 2 comments

in general

Mollom’s been doing a simply outstanding job of blocking spam lately, after the warm-up period. Unfortunately, it appears to be doing a bang-up job of blocking legitimate, breathing humans who are trying (and failing) to comment. I’m moving antispam back to Akismet for awhile, and am hoping it’s just a growing pain for Mollom – [...]

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