From Russia With LoveOctober 21st, 2008 Have you *ever* received genuine Russian comments on English blogs?
I receive many many of Russian comments everyday. Previously I used to translate them because my blog is multi-lingual and Russian is one of the 32 languages this blog is available, thanks to automated.
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.
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 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.
Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No SirSeptember 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.
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 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.
Spam Me Ye Comment Spammers!August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.
Bad Karma by Spam Karma FilterDecember 24th, 2004 I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site.
WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP AddressesMay 29th, 2006 I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.
Recipe for a comment spam free site for WordPress UsersDecember 24th, 2004 My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all:
Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack
Go to Options Tab.
Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress BlogsJanuary 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.
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 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.
To "nofollow" or not, that is the question...January 24th, 2005 A discussion on rel="nofollow" technique versus CAPTCHA
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. Such comment spams when translated may cause embarrassment for the blogger and also provide unwanted boost to comment spammers. I have a recommendation. Let's first look at this recent example on my blog (NSFW):
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August 12th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Well, if I can’t make out what the commenter says (if it’s not in one of the languages I speak), chances are my readers won’t either.
To the bin.
August 12th, 2007 at 10:15 am
The solution is simple if you have a blog in a single language like English. However if you use my Translator plugin which provides automatic translation of your blog in up to 32 languages, then you do have to consider your global audience. For example this blog has already served over 2 million non-English visitors since May (look in the top right corner for the current stats). So I cannot simply delete a comment because it is written in say Spanish or Russian. I have to translate it to find out what it says before I delete or approve. However thanks to my Comment Guard plugin all automated comment spams are caught even before it reaches me.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Spammers never give up, and problems force us to find a way to overcome.
The idea is simple and seems ~OK. However, it’s a serious server load I guess.
First of all, we don’t need to translate the whole message. I think the old solutions does this too: A multi-language badwords database. This has some side-effects too: A user might want to say “it’s a f***ing good program!”, and our control mechanism probably eleminates this comment, which shouldn’t has been.
But we still has a chance to improve it: The idea could be “
if more than x badword(s)“; or a much better one: “the ratio of badwords to word count”I guess this hits the spammers algorithm
November 10th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Our solution will be quite simple for the moment, delete any comment we don’t understand. Those that got past the anti-spam filter, anyway.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting