Why Do Bloggers Get Comments With Strange Author NamesMarch 12th, 2008 Would you approve a (blog) comment where the commenter's name is "Best Way To Loose Weight"? Any sane blogger would never approve such comments even if it is relevant to context. Do you know why?
As comment author is linked with author URL, such comments are obviously intended to highlight the keywords he wants to increase search engine positioning and ranking.
Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Plugin) Released for Internal TestingNovember 30th, 2007 I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more.
Comment Guard Pro: Over 1 Million Comment Spam BlockedDecember 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).
Comment SpamFebruary 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.
Comment Guard Pro in Final Stages of DevelopmentNovember 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.
Close to 10, 000 Comments; Mystery Gift for 10, 000th Commenter!September 23rd, 2008 This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog.
Spammer of the Day...September 9th, 2007 Spammer of the day - Florida based Interactive Marketing Group repeatedly spammed us 86 times abusing our Contact Form touting their ImgSite[dot]net service from the IP address 85.255.121.130. They are our spammer of the day.
Rise Of Russian Comment SpamAugust 12th, 2007 I am seeing a steady and alarming rise of russian comment spams. Often people will not understand a comment in a foreign language and may approve it in a hurry.
Comment Guard Plugin Updated with New FeaturesAugust 29th, 2007 We have the Comment Guard plugin on all of our blogs with the latest version. Comment Guard is our fool-proof solution to eliminate comment spam from automated bots, which constitute over 90% of comments.
Spam Me Ye Comment Spammers!August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.
Mambo / Joomla SQL Injection VulnerabilityJune 19th, 2006 rgod has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo & Joomla, which can be exploited to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "Name" field when submitting a web link isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query.
To "nofollow" or not, that is the question...January 24th, 2005 A discussion on rel="nofollow" technique versus CAPTCHA
The D-Day...February 26th, 2008 March 3rd is our D-Day. We will launch a new version of our corporate website.
1/2 Million+ Spam Comments Blocked By Comment Guard Pro; Zero False PositiveSeptember 28th, 2007 508903 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 253 days 21 hours 54 minutes. 99.503% of the comments received during this time were spam.
Comment Guard Pro Beta 0.3 ReleasedFebruary 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Hi!
We don’t use the name field except for our real names. We’d like to thank you for the plugin that’s make our blog, http://www.reapmoneyonline.com, more comment friendly.
We’ve read blog posts about the usefulness of a no follow. John Chow is even supposedly making a little money removing the no follow from paying commenters. We’re more inclined to follow your generosity.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Our forum was abused by spammers. It’s really annoying.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I think you would be better served to monitor the quality of your comments rather than the use of keywords in the name.
The problem is you suggest that people can add a link anyway and be up front about it, and that’s ok.
However I’ve seen tons of comments (using a real name) that just say “I agree” with a link in the comments. It seems this type of spam would be more objectionable.
regards -
October 12th, 2008 at 9:26 am
I do monitor quality of comments too. You won’t find many “I agree” type of comments in this blog, unless it is a post which asks for users agreement / disagreement with the content.
However we still need to monitor Joe “My keyword laden phrase” Smith commenters also.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:50 am
We’ve read blog posts about the usefulness of a no follow.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I agree with you there are such people who abuse name field just to bring traffic to there site..i have recently created a blog and i am concerning about how i can protect from spammers.
August 12th, 2009 at 7:00 am
I have never understood why the website option has been included as it just encourages misuse.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
this is intresting