Comments on: Comment Spam Solutions

By: A New Solution to Comment Spam | John's Jottings

A New Solution to Comment Spam | John's Jottings — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:23:46 +0000

[...] September 4th I wrote about the problem in Comment Spam Solutions, adding that I thought the best approach to defeating spam was a blacklist approach where the list [...]

By: Solutions for Comment Spam on Blogs | John's Jottings

Solutions for Comment Spam on Blogs | John's Jottings — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:33:23 +0000

[...] I’ve written about before comment spamming is becoming a serious problem. After getting almost a dozen of them today I realized a couple of [...]

By: Cero Spam

Cero Spam — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:44:11 +0000

Hi,
we are testing a new free form-protection service (http://www.cerospam.com.ar), for blogs and for any kind of web site. It is easy to setup each form with this system, and it is very useful for protecting comment forms from spammers.
It is based on captcha method. Until now it seems to work fine. No matter what kind of blog software you are using, this is not a plugin.
Please, test it and do not hesitate to send us your comments!
Thank you.

By: Chui Tey

Chui Tey — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 03:22:01 +0000

How about a Java Applet implementation of hashcash to combat comment spam? Obviously,
the people who are using Lynx will be affected, but my guess is this is a small minority.

By: Paracelsus Rambles

Paracelsus Rambles — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:11:01 +0000

Comment spam

I should have seen this coming: comment spam. A bot posts a meaningless comment to your blog and leaves behind

By: Paracelsus Rambles

Paracelsus Rambles — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:29:47 +0000

Comment spam

I should have seen this coming: comment spam. A bot posts a meaningless comment to your blog and leaves behind

By: Jay Allen

Jay Allen — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:39:08 +0000

John, tell me what you think about this: http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/09/killing_comment_spam_dead

By: Brainstorms and Raves

Brainstorms and Raves — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 08:25:24 +0000

Friday Feast #58: RSS Validator Update, Check Your Sites, Comments Spam

Today’s Feast covers ad-blocking software, a new domain for the RSS feed validator, and a fun collection of typography-related photos to browse. Happy weekend, everyone.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 05:30:38 +0000

I think the “he” referred to in the sentence “Burningbird says he is using Google against us.” is the spammer, not Shelley. as in:

“Shelley says that the spammer is using Google against us.”

By: Noel D. Jackson

Noel D. Jackson — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:46:40 +0000

Actually it’s Ms. Burningbird. Or Shelly “Burningbird” Powers.

By: Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:15:08 +0000

Two risks already common to real-time blacklists (as used for email today): 1) requires human review of blacklisted entries to prevent abuse, and 2) ofttimes the policies are vague enough that abuse is still possible.

That’s on top of the risk that a blacklist based on IP addresses or address blocks could affect innocent users. One based on “identity” would be much more effective.

Trust and referall networks act like combined white and black lists.

I created a Pie wiki page to start gathering information on the subject, http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/CommentAuthentication

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:19:40 +0000

except that those are a major accessibility nightmare. (this just came up yesterday (?) on Mark Pilgrim's blog: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/09/02/microsoft-web-services#c003786 etc.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:00:05 +0000

MT needs one of those image to text anti-robot things like vB, paypal and ebay use.
I’m going to head over to MT and suggest it.