How to Fight Against (sub?) Human-Written Comment SpamJuly 5th, 2005 All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them.
Apology to "Simple Thoughts" blog commenters in last 20 days or soMarch 17th, 2005 What happened
After my WordPress 1.5 upgrade and enabling of an option to reject comments from open proxy, no comments (over 100) were appearing on my blogs. Moreover they were silently discarded.
My Blacklist for WordPress 1.5 (strayhorn)March 17th, 2005 Feel free to use this blacklist for your Blog. It can be added in Options/Discussion/Comment Blacklist text area.
All comments get nuked by Blackhole option on blocking open proxy lists in WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn)March 17th, 2005 It was surprising to find no comment spam after installing WordPress 1.5, noting that I haven't enabled CAPTCHA with this upgrade. However I soon realized that I wasn't receiving any normal comments too on very commentable articles.
WordPress Beats Blogger in Google Search & NewsMay 19th, 2007 The latest Google search Trends (picture below) shows WordPress ahead of Blogger. Typepad and Movable Type are far behind and in decline.
Waiting For 20, 000th Spam in 7 DaysJune 3rd, 2006 I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.
WordPress 1.5: My Referrer Bouncer BlacklistMay 15th, 2005 I am sharing by Referrer Bouncer Plugin BlackList. This can be used with the Referrer Bouncer plugin by creating a custom referer.txt (if not done already) and adding/merging this list contents.
The Death of Akismet (WordPress Spam Prevention Plugin)?May 28th, 2006 Akismet is a spam prevention plugin from the WordPress author, Matt Mullenweg. It uses collective wisdom in filtering spams.
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.
Facing a P0ker FloodMay 14th, 2006 This blog is being flooded with P0ker spam comments. Obviously they aren't getting through.
Strong Anti-Email Spam Protection In Place...November 3rd, 2007 We are tweaking our postfix servers to offer maximum spam protection upfront with helo checks, header checks, blacklist checks, RBL's and more. So far my daily spam count has dropped from about 3000-7000 spams / day to about 15-35 spams per day.
How to keep your WordPress 1.5 Blog Spam FreeMay 5th, 2005 Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, Pingback Spam and Referrer Spam are ever increasing problems with blogs. After moving my blog over to WordPress 1.5, I revisited my Spam prevention strategy.
Paid Content Plugin For WordPress New Version - Request for SuggestionsSeptember 15th, 2006 We are working on a new version of Authenticated plugin. Please let me know the features you would like in the comments or email it to me at angsuman[at]taragana[dot]com.
The Big Void In WordPress Comment Spam ProtectionJanuary 16th, 2007 I have experiemented with all the available WordPress plugins for comment spam protection including but not limited to Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2, Akismet and built-in WordPress features like blacklists and moderation queue. We have to deal with tens of thousands of spam everyday.
How to Backup & Restore MySQL DatabaseMay 13th, 2005 Note: My WordPress database name is wordpress. I will use it in the example below.
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October 1st, 2007 at 4:34 am
Yeah, sadly I was received so much trackback spam.. that I have disabled it.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Hi,
my suggestions for bringing this list a little futher:
peni-s
casi-no
kasi-no
$ (no one writes this without trying to sell)
€
and for sid: try TrackBackValidation PlugIn
thanks for this one.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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