Comment Spam

This is for Outlets and Vents, Tinkerbell, and anyone else who got hit by a recent wave of Comment Spam. I found it very weird when bots started spamming my blog, but it used to give them a boost in Google. Of course, Google adapted and it doesn’t work anymore, but they haven’t stopped.

On indi.ca you’re simply not allowed to say ‘poker’ or ‘viagra’ or ‘cialis’ or stuff like that. Anything with those words gets trashed cause I’m too lazy to moderate. To do that you can go to Options/Discussion and set what words get moderated and what gets trashed. Unfortunately, what you guys are getting is crap like

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… which doesn’t even make sense. I guess think like scanning for weaknesses, maybe sites that keep those odd keywords up are targeted later. Anyways, I’d delete that shit now before you get hit with more (goto Manage/Comments). Good luck.

If anybody has problems with Blogsome please tell me. I can host the same multiuser thing they’re running, but I’d rather let Blogsome be responsible. If there is demand we can do something like you.kottu.org, but Blogsome is very good.

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If it helps any, the bots usually target wp-comments-post.php. Not an option with Blogsome perhaps, but renaming that file has met with some success. Details here if someone needs it.

I’ve seen some idiotic CSS overlay tricks, like overflow: hidden used to hide the URLs from everything but a search engine bot.

Yeah, I’ve seen a hack to implement a hidden field in wp-comments that bots can’t see (WordPress Forum). However, I’m pretty sure that they don’t have FTP or File Manager access on Blogsome.

Blogsome runs on WordPress Multiuser, which isn’t very well documented. I don’t know if it has one central install or what. I don’t get pingers that much, hopefully they’ll just pass.