I’ve been getting a few comment spams on older posts. All of them have been for medications. So I would strongly advise you not to discuss viagra or phentermine in my comments threads.
Not that I thought you were going to.
By the way, if you use either of those words in my comments, your comment will be automatically deleted. I won’t be notified of it. It will just–disappear.
So if you were thinking of being a wise guy, nobody is going to be able to read it.
There’s a plug-in that stops spammers from posting on older comment threads. I’ll check it out later on and probably make use of it.
WordPress registration has caught most of the problem. Time to catch the ones getting through the net.
That’s right. Yourish.com will eliminate any terrorist comment spammers trying to crawl under the security fence. I’ve learned from the best.
Sorry to butt in with (maybe unneeded) advice, but have you considered that these spammers could be other programs and not necessarily people?
Some blog engines have a way to prevent the spammer programs – it is called “word verification”, not sure if the one you use has it.
The drawback is that it will stop some lazy posters as well, since it requires a minuscule effort ;-)
I have also seen (on Soccer Dad I think) a verification button. I believe it requires a human to click on a verification button. Some connections do not handle word verification properly (treating it like a popup ad) but a plain button would seem to work.
Well, the registration process is the major block to spammers. You have to register to post a comment, and before your first comment posts, I have to approve it. If I don’t approve it, it doesn’t publish, and neither do any other comments you write until I approve that first one. Furthermore, only people with pre-approved comments can post at will. So there’s a three-step process that has had two of its steps overcome by spammers. If they have scripts to register and write comments, they’re hitting the wall at my approval to post.
But it’s getting to be noticeable. There were zero spam comments until last week.
Time to upgrade the protection.
Just wait until the UN demands you open freedom of comment movement back up for humanitarian reasons.
I found that closing older comment threads cut down on spam considerably. does WP have a command that lets you close a bunch of posts all at once.